Calculating the final bill
Anyone who reads the Times will be familiar with their ‘dine out for a tenner’ deals. Top London restaurants offer cheap deals on stripped-down menus, while banking that once they’ve got you in the door and you’ve drunk your complimentary glass of fizz you’ll start ordering a la carte and racking up a big bill. […]
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BT awards SeeBeyond £16m ‘data spine’ contract
SeeBeyond has been awarded a seven-year contract by BT to provide the core software for the transactional messaging service for ‘data spine’, as part of BT’s £620m National Application Service Provider (NASP) contract to deliver the central NHS Care Record Service (NHS CRS) component of the National Programme for IT. Under the contract, worth approximately […]
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Syntegra selects ILOG for ‘data spine’ record handling
ILOG has announced that Syntegra, the consulting and systems integration arm of British Telecom, has selected ILOG JRules, a Business Rule Management System product, to meet record handling standards mandated for the NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS) component of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). In December 2003 BT Syntegra was awarded £620m, 10-year […]
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Sysmed to buy oncology systems specialist Clinisis
Sysmed is to acquire Clinisis Ltd, a provider of electronic clinical solutions for chemotherapy and radiotherapy, in a move that will further expand Sysmed’s range of integrated clinical and diagnostic software tools. According to a statement by Sysmed the acquisition of Clinisis will enable it to offer an improved range of clinical systems capable of […]
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E-prescribing gets underway at Countess of Chester
A successful pilot for FileTek UK’s Meditech electronic prescribing (EP) system at the Countess of Chester Hospital, Cheshire, has opened the way for a full 12 -18 month roll-out of the system starting in early 2004. FileTek says that the system provides total integration between pharmacy stock system and the other patient-based Meditech modules, […]
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Newchurch starts Tees diabetes ICRS project
Information solutions and consulting specialist, Newchurch Limited, has started work on the Tees Diabetes Integrated Record Service Pilot (ICRS) for County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic Health Authority. The pilot project, funded by the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, started last week and will continued until April 2004. The system developed will be used to […]
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Newcastle Hospitals awards Ferrania RIS/PACS contract
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has completed a pilot procurement of community-wide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and Radiology Information Systems (RIS), in a move designed to provide a template for National programme for IT (NPfIT) procurements in PACS/RIS systems. After a competitive procurement the trust has awarded Ferrania UK’s LifeImaging division a […]
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Paying the price for success
As the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) procurements approach their climax the final few weeks of negotiations appear to have centred on the relentless push from the centre to drive down prices for systems, software and associated services. The challenge is to stretch to the limit the return on the £2.3 billion being invested nationally […]
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Granger says firms will sign up to terms and conditions
NHS IT Director General Richard Granger, has rejected claims that the terms and conditions included in contracts for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are too onerous for bidders to sign up to, and stated that he is convinced firms will sign up to the arrangements. The most compelling evidence of this claim was […]
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Reader Comment: ‘NPfIT Viewed from Scotland’
The following ‘reader comment’ was supplied in response to recent E-Health Insider reports on the development of the National Programme for IT. The author is a consultant anaesthetist at a leading Scottish acute trust, who leads on IT issues locally. There is much about the current national programme procurements and what they entail, and the machinations […]
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