McKesson buys Supporta Payroll Services
Healthcare IT systems specialist McKesson, has acquired Supporta Payroll Services in a deal that will allow the company to provide bureau services to new and existing clients to complement its existing HR and payroll capabilities. The new unit, to be known as McKesson HR and Payroll Solutions will build upon the existing shared NHS customer base using […]
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iSoft says takeover talks “well advanced”
iSoft announced late on Friday that it is in "well advanced" takeover talks with "several parties", and expects to be able to make a statement soon. The company responsible for delivering new software systems to 60% of the English NHS said that discussions with potential buyers had taken longer than expected, due to concerns over its role […]
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Extra suppliers catalogue tender welcomed by industry
Reaction to last week’s publication of the tender for a catalogue of additional healthcare IT suppliers was broadly positive, generating questions about how soon the extra solutions and services would be available not whether the new approach was a good idea. Predictably, the supplier community welcomed the opportunity opened up by the tender. Nick Kalisperas […]
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Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda
Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in the recovering US city of New Orleans, Neil Versel writes. An Accenture study released at the start of last week’s meeting suggested that two-thirds of Americans consider electronic health […]
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Doubts raised on potential iSoft sale to McKesson
The potential £200m sale of iSoft may be in jeopardy, according to a report in the Times today which says that preferred bidder McKesson has insisted on unspecified contract conditions that would prevent a deal being concluded. According to the newspaper, US health IT and drugs distribution giant McKesson has been front-runner to buy iSoft. […]
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Southend completes three-way integration with McKesson
Southend Hospital NHS Trust has implemented a new Radiology Information System enabling the hospital to complete three-way integration between the RIS, its Patient Administration System and its Picture Archiving and Communication System. The trust already had a McKesson TotalCARE PAS in place and wanted to upgrade its RIS to one that would integrate with this […]
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Networks First takes on McKesson UK networking clients
Networks First, an independent provider of support services for network infrastructures, and its healthcare partner Bates IT, are assuming management and support of McKesson UK’s networking division. McKesson UK, part of the US healthcare services giant, works with over 350 NHS trusts on a range of services including patient administration systems, point-of-care clinical services, human […]
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McKesson buys Per-Se
US health IT giant McKesson Corporation has announced an agreement to buy health administration transaction IT specialist Per-Se for £1bn ($1.8bn). San Francisco-based McKesson says that the acquisition of Per Se announced last week forms part of its ongoing strategy to strengthen its position as an industry leader providing clinical, financial and administrative systems to […]
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Newcastle looks outside CfH for maternity
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for a new maternity system and key elements of a new electronic health record system, outside the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The trust is making the move to mitigate risks created by delays to the Connecting for Health programme growing beyond the current two […]
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Opening the book
What does the industry think of the proposed CfH supplier catalogue? E-Health Insider gauges the response.
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