Healthcare Interoperability Preview 2
CfH clinical lead thinks future may be Lorenzo
NHS Connecting for Health’s clinical lead for hospital doctors has predicted that iSoft’s Lorenzo “could be used more” than Cerner’s Millennium in the future, as web-based technologies come to the fore. Responding to a question at this week’s Primis + conference in Nottingham, Dr Robert Pitcher confirmed that NHS organisations in the South were looking […]
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Lorenzo live at Morecambe Bay by end of month
Computer Science Corporation’s chief technology officer for the National Programme for IT in the NHS has said it will implement Lorenzo at the first acute trust by the end of September. Speaking at an industry event in St Albans last week, Mike Dyer said University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust will go live “by […]
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Competition begins to open up in the South
Competition for NHS IT business in the south of England looks set to become a lot more “flexible”, with trusts and strategic health authorities planning to take different approaches. Gary Cohen, executive chairman of IBA Health Group, the owners of iSoft, told E-health Insider that competition looks certain in the region, following Fujitsu being axed […]
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CSC selects InterSystems for trust integration
Computer Sciences Corporation is to use InterSystems Ensemble for the integration of all new applications it provides to existing trust systems. CSC, the local service provider for the North East and Midlands regions in England’s NHS National Programme for IT, has selected Ensemble as the standard trust integration engine (TIE). The Ensemble TIE will include pre-built […]
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Fujitsu said to be preparing £700m LSP claim
Fujitsu may be preparing to seek up to £700m in compensation from the Department of Health for the termination of its £1.1 billion NHS IT contract in May. The Japanese company had its contract cancelled by NHS Connecting for Health after year-long contract re-negotiations to deliver new electronic patient record systems more flexibly broke down. Fujitsu […]
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South may split between CSC and BT
No single prime contractor may be appointed to replace Fujitsu in the programme to upgrade NHS IT systems in the South of England. Instead, the region may be split between the two remaining prime contractors, BT and Computer Sciences Corporation. E-Health Insider has learned that some trusts covered by NHS South East Coast, one of […]
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Leicester implements ‘interim’ order comms
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has carried out the first phase of the deployment of an interim order communications system supplied by iSoft, delivered by Computer Sciences Corporation. The implementation – initially to a small number of wards – is the first time under the National Programme for IT in the NHS that local […]
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Bath ends planned Fujitsu deployment
Bath’s Royal United Hospital NHS Trust has terminated the planned implementation of a Cerner Millennium care record system that was to have been supplied by Fujitsu. On 26 June, E-health Insider reported that the trust had delayed a planned 12 July implementation, because of the uncertainty created by Fujitsu’s departure as the National Programme for […]
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BT on track to get southern Cerner trusts
British Telecom is on track to take over responsibility of the eight southern NHS trusts running Cerner Millennium from Fujitsu, with an agreement now likely to be reached in August. At the launch of the NHS Informatics Review last week Gordon Hextall, acting head of NHS Connecting for Health, told E-Health Insider that negotiations were […]
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