CfH aims to install at 22 acute trusts by October
NHS Connecting for Health and its prime contractors have told a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee that they will deliver at least 22 new patient administration system (PAS) replacements to NHS acute trusts by the end of October this year. The figure does not include any London trusts. To date the programme has […]
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iSoft claim Australian successes
iSoft have announced the initial rollout of its iPM PAS system at Orange Base Hospital, in Orange, near Sydney, Australia. The implementation of the patient administration system is the first stage of the Manchester-based company’s scheme to rollout iPM to 123 public hospitals in New South Wales. iSoft is working with the state’s healthcare IT […]
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Morecambe Bay goes live with PAS from CSC
Three sites in University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust have gone live with an iSoft patient administration system (PAS) that includes, for the first time, the A&E administration module from iSoft’s Lorenzo reference solution. CSC, the local service provider for the North West and West Midlands, installed the system in a ‘big bang’ implementation, […]
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Birmingham Women’s goes live with iPM
Birmingham Women’s Health Care NHS Trust has gone live with a new NHS Connecting for Health patient administration system provided by local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation. The specialist trust migrated from its old McKesson TPA PAS to the new iPM system, supplied by iSoft, over the weekend of 21-22 April and was up and […]
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CSC helps cut patient referral times
A new strategic patient administration system installed at a primary care trust in North Manchester has helped to slash the time taken for new referrals to be registered for podiatry clinics. According to figures from Computer Sciences Corportation (CSC), which installed the iSoft iPM patient administration system (PAS), North Manchester PCT has seen the average waiting time for a new […]
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North Staffs prepares for big bang
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust is getting ready to go live with patient administration and clinical systems from iSoft some three years after it first signed the contract – and over two years late. April 30 marked the third anniversary of North Staffordshire NHS Trust signing a contract with iSoft for its iPM patient […]
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Northumbria goes outside NPfIT for PAS
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust has gone out to tender for a patient administration system as a result of delays in the availability of a suitable system that meets the trust’s requirements under the NHS national programme for IT. The acute hospital trust this week placed a procurement notice in the Official Journal of the European […]
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Work underway to fix records problem in iPM
A problem has been identified in iSoft’s iPM patient administration software, which, under certain circumstances, can lead to patients’ electronic records not being correctly updated and records becoming unviewable by NHS staff. Efforts are now underway to try and identify effected patient records, restore missing data and put the problem right. Official guidance has also […]
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Lorenzo CRS solution delayed until late 2007
The delivery of the strategic Care Record Service solution in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been confirmed as running badly late and subject to "significant delays" until at least late 2007. As a result, strategic health authorities in the area are now developing "delay mitigation plans" based on interim use of existing systems […]
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‘Plymouth’ offered as an interim solution
Connecting for Health has shelved plans to provide NHS acute trusts across three regions in England with an integrated, strategic next-generation clinical system for another two or three years. E-Health Insider has learned that since late December in the North East, Eastern and North West and West Midlands regions, NHS Connecting for Health has stopped […]
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