CSC to continue to deploy TPP systems
CSC has confirmed that it will continue to work with Accenture’s main software sub-contractors in the North east and Eastern NHS regions, and it plans to continue to deploy systems from The Phoenix Partnership into primary and community care. Andrew Spence, the solutions director for CSC Alliance, told EHI Primary Care that following last Thursday’s […]
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Accenture pulls out of national programme
Accenture has departed from the NHS National Programme for IT, walking away from two contracts worth a total of more than £2bn. The company, which is the second biggest supplier to the national programme, made the announcement before its fourth quarter earnings call today. It is understood that the firm has been unable to reach an agreement with NHS […]
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Sheffield concluded iPM was ‘not fit for purpose’
A confidential review of the two Local Service Provider versions of iSoft’s iPM patient administration system carried out by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust concluded the system was not, in its team’s opinion, “fit for purpose” and created “clinical risks”, due to a series of performance issues. The team looked at versions of the […]
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Concerns voiced over Ireland’s iSoft deal
The main Irish opposition party, Fine Gael, has raised concerns over the recent financial difficulties of iSoft and the £38m (€56m) contract it was awarded by the Irish government in April 2005 to upgrade the country’s healthcare IT. Fine Gael has also questioned the circumstances in which a major contract was agreed verbally and then […]
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iSoft goes live with results reporting in Ireland
iSoft have announced that it is rolling out its iPM results reporting module across all sites in the Bon Secours private hospital group in Ireland following a successful six-month pilot. The pilot of the browser-based results access system took place across five wards in the 343-bed Cork site. Previously, test results were distributed twice daily […]
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Implementation dates for hospitals continue to slip
An investigation by E-Health Insider has found that two-thirds of the 22 NHS acute trusts that were meant to be receiving a replacement patient administration system by the end of October say they will not hit the target. In late June NHS Connecting for Health and its local service providers told Richard Bacon MP, a […]
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Accenture winds down acute hospital trust work
Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North-east and East of England, is winding down its implementation team working on putting new patient administration system into NHS hospitals. E-Health Insider has been told that the acute implementation team was almost completely disbanded at the beginning of July, with a number […]
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‘No believable plan’ for completion of iSoft Lorenzo
A confidential review of iSoft’s release schedule has revealed that there are no immediate prospects for the completion and delivery of the Lorenzo electronic patient record software, the key patient software for three out of five regions of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme. The EPR was first meant to be delivered to two-thirds of the NHS […]
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Sheffield abandons iSoft iPM implementation
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has abandoned plans to implement a new patient administration system from iSoft, the first stage of the local Care Records Service (CRS) software being offered to it under the NHS Connecting for Health programme. After delays stretching back to 2004, the independent foundation trust, one of the largest hospital […]
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Birmingham Children’s loses sight of appointments
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust has become the latest trust to experience problems after Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) installed new remotely-hosted patient administration system (PAS) software supplied by iSoft. Following a software upgrade to its new PAS system, outpatient appointment data for 800 children became unviewable to staff using the day clinic module of the […]
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