BT takes over Cerner sites in the south
BT, the local service provider for London, is to take over responsibility for supporting hospitals in the south of England running Cerner Millennium software.
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College highlights poor PACS image sharing
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor, according to a new position paper from the Royal College of Radiologists.
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
A shake-up at the top of NHS IT will see power shift from NHS Connecting for Health to Whitehall, says E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma.
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Worthing decides to switch off Cerner
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust has agreed plans to switch off its Cener Millennium electronic records software and move back to its old Sema-Helix software. As first reported by E-Health Insider on 26 January, the trust has been examining whether to move from its current Cerner Millennium system back to its old Sema-Helix patient […]
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Waiting not an option
The chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust tells Jon Hoeksma why it can’t wait for NPfIT to deliver.
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NHS severe computer faults double
NHS Connecting for Health, the health service’s IT agency, has revealed that the number of severe faults in NHS computer systems has doubled over the past three years. Last year nationwide NHS computer systems suffered 820 severity-one or critical faults with national applications, provided by National Application Service Providers (NASPs) the majority relating to the […]
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider’s editor says the Public Accounts Committee’s latest report shows its time to take some tough decisions about NPfIT.
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Detailed Care Records for 3.5m patients
More than 3.5m patients in Yorkshire and the Humber now have a Detailed Care Record for primary and community care, in one of the lesser-known success stories of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Here was the news: in 2008
The future of the National Programme for IT in the NHS was the big news of 2008. E-Health Insider’s review of the year opens with calls from opposition politicians for the programme to be reviewed or abandoned and closes with NHS chief executive David Nicholson admitting that it is now at a “pivotal point.” The […]
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