ISoft7 reach £25m agreement
The iSoft7 appear to have reached a deal with NHS Connecting for Health, CSC and iSoft to keep their iPM software running from CSC’s data centre.
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ISoft7 seek alternative provider
The seven “out of cluster” trusts in London and the South of England that signed a deal with CSC and iSoft ahead of the National Programme for IT in the NHS are seeking an alternative host for their iPM systems.
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Imperial completes trust-wide IMS PAS
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has completed the roll out of its IMS Maxims patient administration system across all of its hospital sites.
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London group wins John Perry prize
The Clinical Effectiveness Group has been awarded this year’s John Perry prize at the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group annual conference. The group covers 145 GP practices in some of the most deprived areas of London and provides training to GP practices in data quality, production of clinical guidelines, collection, analysis and feedback of […]
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Barts to link cardiology EPR to Cerner
Barts and The London NHS Trust has signed a deal with HD Clinical to replace its cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery systems with a web-based electronic patient record that will link to its Cerner Millennium system.
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London completes move to RiO 5.4
All 36 of the community and mental health trusts in London that opted to take the RiO electronic patient record have been upgraded to the latest version by local service provider BT.
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London looks for new deal with Microsoft
Chief information officers and IT directors in London are hoping to explore a capital-wide deal with Microsoft following the termination of the company’s Enterprise-wide Agreement with the NHS. Sources have told E-Health Insider that at a general meeting in London last week there was a “huge amount of disgruntlement” about the decision not to renew […]
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DH gives go ahead to Cerner upgrades
The Department of Health has given the go ahead to a Cerner upgrade across London and the South of England that had stalled over concerns over data transfer from the UK to the US.
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BT completes deals for 25 RiO sites
BT has finalised the contracts for the 25 RiO sites across the South of England that formed part of the extended contract that it signed with NHS Connecting for Health last year.
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Data published as Whitehall is reviewed
The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts that will be reviewed by the new government to ensure value for money. A joint Treasury and Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Group, led by Paymaster General Francis Maude, is examining all new contracts worth […]
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