Infrastructure gap between NHS trusts growing
The gap between the best and the worst NHS trusts on the effectiveness of their IT infrastructure and operations is growing.
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NPfIT spent half total planned in first three years
The £12bn NHS IT programme had spent barely half the amount it had planned to by March 2007, due to lengthy delays in the delivery of the detailed local electronic patient records at the centre of the project. By March 2007 the programme had spent a total of £2.4bn, against an original forecast spend of […]
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ESR set to complete roll-out
The NHS’s Electronic Staff Record is due to complete its national implementation this month, with over 600 NHS organisations across England and Wales live with the centralised national human resources system. When fully operational, the system will hold the details of almost 1.3m NHS staff members, replacing 28 core payroll systems, and 67 legacy human […]
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The bigger picture at HIMSS
Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 25.01.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 25 January 2008 featuring supplier news, events, product launches and company collaborations. Supplier news Pharmacy Compliance Monitored Using Wireless Sensors Adaptive Wireless Solutions has supplied a wireless sensor network system to Facility Monitoring Systems as part of a multi-area pharmacy clean room, stores and packing […]
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Harrogate deploy asset management software
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust has implemented new asset management software to provide a single asset register better track and manage its equipment, including IT hardware and software. The trust will also use the software, supplied by Real Asset Management, to help improve helpdesk services and audits of its 13,000 resources. John Brewster, capital […]
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ASCC suppliers named
Connecting for Health has named the suppliers for three of the four categories of the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity framework initiative.
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Spine to be shut for two day ‘refresh’
Connecting for Health (CfH) and BT have confirmed that the NHS Spine will be unavailable when it is taken down for a major upgrade from next Friday evening until Sunday morning (9-11 November). The Department of Health agency describes the refresh of software and hardware as ‘unusual’ and ‘unlikely’ to occur again in the future. A […]
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Patient records found on drive sold on eBay
Major overhaul for Addenbrooke’s theatre system
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is upgrade its TheatreMan theatre management system to improve both the day-to-day information available to clinicians and longer term planning. The flagship Cambridge teaching hospital was previously using a dated UNIX version of TheatreMan, which was not in line with other IT developments, and will now to move to the Windows version of the system. […]
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