MoD to announce EHR contract next year
The MoD will award a contract to build an electronic medical record system that will be used across the whole armed services in the early part of next year, E-Health Insider has learned. Two groups headed by IBM and Logica CMG are building separate electronic medical record systems for the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme […]
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US government awards EHR pilot contracts
The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC, IBM and Northrop Grumman to develop four pilot health information infrastructures across twelve locations in ten states, and then release the designs into the public domain. The four groups, the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) consortia, will […]
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Kodak announces new push into healthcare IT
Eastman Kodak this week announced plans for a concerted push into the fast-growing market for healthcare information technology with the introduction of a new portfolio of software and systems. The new approach was announced at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS) conference in Dallas this week. Kodak’s health imaging business serving the health […]
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NHS University cancels ‘virtual campus’ procurement
The NHS University has cancelled the procurement for its ‘virtual campus’, the project that was meant to be the centerpiece of the health service’s corporate university e-learning services. NHSU had planned to award the contract for the ‘virtual campus’ this summer. The platform was intended to provide NHS staff with 24-hour access to online knowledge […]
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Armed forces march towards electronic health records
The MoD has announced the next stage of plans to introduce an electronic medical records system that will link to the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the next six years. Two suppliers, LogicaCMG and IBM have been short-listed for a £1m contract, due to be awarded in early 2005, to prove their systems. […]
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Budget or business class? Health IT choices examined
Budget or business class? That’s the kind of question governments face as they decide what kind of investment to make in healthcare IT – and the bosses at IBM are keen to show that they are supporting all kinds of solutions. At a recent briefing on Big Blue’s strategic vision for healthcare, Neil de Crescenzo, […]
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IBM invests $250m in healthcare initiative
IBM today announced a $250m (£132m) global initiative over three years to boost its presence in healthcare. The money will be used for solutions development, research and development, IBM Business Partner collaborations and to hire new specialists. Dr. Caroline Kovac, general manager of IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences said: “"The healthcare industry is under tremendous […]
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Gershon advocates better IT use to free up skilled staff
A leaked report advocating radical measures to improve government efficiency points to better use of IT and skill mix as a means of freeing up better qualified staff for more productive work in the NHS and other public services. However, the report compiled by the Office for Government Commerce’s chief executive, Sir Peter Gershon, also […]
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NHS deals just the start, say Forrester
The NHS’s deals on clinical applications are just a prelude to a much wider adoption these technologies according to US analysts, Forrester Research. In a list of the top 10 healthcare predictions for 2004, Forrester forecasts that 2004 will mark the shift of IT attention from back office to the clinical examination room in a […]
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London to start implementation immediately
The NHS’s IT boss for London has told E-Health insider that implementation work is set to begin immediately, following today’s announcement of the award of a £996m, 10-year contract to BT to act as Local Service Provider (LSP) for the capital. Speaking to E-Health Insider immediately after the announcement of the contract this morning David […]
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