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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South edges towards ‘best of breed’ approach
The re-negotiation of the NHS IT Programme contract between Fujitsu and the NHS in the South of England appears to be heading towards a best of breed approach.
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CSC re-negotiating delivery of Lorenzo
The contract for delivery of the core strategic clinical software meant to be delivered by the NHS IT programme in three-fifths of the English NHS is being re-negotiated, with talks due to run until the end of 2007.
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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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Everything you know is wrong
In a personal account of implementing NPfIT systems, Jeff Jacklin, former head of IT at Milton Keynes hospital explains the first lesson of working with NPfIT: forget everything you’ve learnt to date.
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Lessons learned
Southern England, perhaps more than any other region, has produced a mixed picture of NHS IT modernisation. Senior executives from local service provider, Fujitsu, explain the real situation as they see it.
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‘Widespread concerns’ about NPfIT penalties
In a new survey NHS foundation trusts have reported ‘widespread concerns’ about the limited functionality of key systems from the NHS National Programme for IT. Some foundation trusts (FTs) that have sought to delay taking systems until problems are fixed say they have been told to expect fines running into many millions of pounds. The FTs […]
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CfH awards BT contract to replace NSTS
A new service developed by BT, called the Demographics Batch Service (DBS) is set to replace the NHS Strategic Tracing Service (NSTS) batch trace in summer 2008. The new system will provide access to the Personal Demographics Service (PDS) for all trusts using legacy systems not already linked to the PDS. Ultimately it will be […]
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CSC reach 600 SystmOne deployments
CSC have reached 600 installations of SystmOne GP system within the North, Midlands and East (NME) Programme for IT. TPP, the supplier of the SystmOne software, is working with CSC, local service provider to the NME Programme for IT, to provide an integrated primary care solution, SystmOne GP, to GPs in the cluster. TPP also supplies […]
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Cerner to offer full 18-week wait reporting by autumn
Evidence of the different approaches being pursued by Fujitsu the NHS IT local service provider (LSP) in the South of England and BT, the LSP for London, has emerged over how to obtain 18-week reporting from the Cerner Millennium software they are both offering. Cerner has exclusively told E-Health Insider that it will provide tools […]
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