Yorkshire and Humber SHA plan TPP-based EPR
Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority has adopted a new IM&T strategy that explicitly plans for the possible non-delivery of Lorenzo.
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Birmingham’s City hospital goes live with iPM
Birmingham’s City Hospital, part of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with iSoft’s iPM patient administration system, deployed by local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation. The trust began data migration from the legacy iSoft PIMS PAS on 11 October and went live with iPM on Monday, 15 October. The system deployed […]
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George Eliot go live with iPM
The George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust has gone live with iSoft’s iPM patient administration system from local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). The trust switched on the system on Monday 8 October after spending the weekend moving over from their previous legacy system. The system includes an Accident and Emergency module. CSC says the trust […]
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Some NPfIT PAS systems barely used
A number of Connecting for Health funded patient administration systems installed in primary care and community trusts, are only being used by a handful of staff.
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Rhapsody installed by three NHS trusts
Orion Health Limited, a specialist in integration and workflow technology in healthcare, has said that its Rhapsody integration engine has been adopted by three NHS trusts over the past three months. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt (RJAH) Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust have both installed Rhapsody to […]
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Mid-Staffs gets iCM after five year wait
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has begun piloting iSoft’s iCM clinical management system on two wards, five years after they signed a ten-year deal with the supplier. The trust first signed a contract with iSoft in October 2002, just before the National Programme for IT began in earnest and have been sporadically working on implementing […]
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CompuGroup outbids IBA for iSoft
iSoft has today announced that it has accepted an unsolicited £160m all cash offer by Germany’s CompuGroup, trumping a previously agreed bid from Australia’s IBA healthcare. The iSoft board met last night and accepted the higher CompuGroup offer, and have withdrawn their previous recommendation for the IBA Health bid. It will now terminate the agreement shareholders voted to […]
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First go live with Ardentia 18 week wait tool
Business intelligence specialists, Ardentia, have completed their first full go-live of the Pathway Manager 18 week wait monitoring tool, and have announced a further two orders from NHS trusts. Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is the first to have deployed the new Pathway Manager package, which was developed with Microsoft, and pools together reporting data […]
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The end of the beginning?
Are we at the end of the beginning of NHS IT modernisation? Jon Hoeksma tests Churchill’s famous quote against the evidence.
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Model for the future
In a personal opinion article Pete Marsh, Technical Director of Wirral Health Informatics Service offers an alternative model for the future, questioning the value of PAS systems in clinical settings.
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