Lorenzo CRS solution delayed until late 2007
The delivery of the strategic Care Record Service solution in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been confirmed as running badly late and subject to "significant delays" until at least late 2007. As a result, strategic health authorities in the area are now developing "delay mitigation plans" based on interim use of existing systems […]
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Meet the suppliers: Liquidlogic
EHI Primary Care talks to health and social care software specialist Liquidlogic, one of the suppliers to have thrived under the NHS IT programme.
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Sheffield children’s trust takes Strand for mental health
Sheffield Children’s Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the UK’s largest providers of child and adolescent mental health services has signed an agreement for a new electronic care record system provided by Strand Technology. The trust has awarded a contract to Strand Technology for its CareNotes electronic record system, which should help modernise the way staff […]
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Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’
A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS trusts working on paper for a week after a disaster was ‘not acceptable’. Sunil Patel, development director of Accenture, LSP for the North east and Eastern regions of England, was referring to the disaster at […]
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CfH announces awards for health IT innovation
Entries have opened for the 2006 Health Informatics Accolade Scheme, which aim to reward the innovative use of technology in the NHS for both clinical and non-clinical purposes. NHS Connecting for Health is offering five prizes of £5000 each for organisations that demonstrate innovation in health informatics. Projects will be judged by CfH and professional organisations […]
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iSoft warns of ‘significant’ NPfIT delays
British healthcare software developer iSOFT has warned that delays in delivering software to the UK National Health Service would slash its previous revenue and profit forecasts. In a trading statement this morning the company said that total full-year revenue generated from the programme is expected to be around £30m, about £55m pounds below previous expectations, […]
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ePEX accredited for Choose and Book
Ascribe has announced that it has achieved Choose and Book accreditation for its ePEX patient administration system, which is installed in 25% of PCTs in the UK. The ePEX PAS has been designed with primary and community care in mind, with modules that support mental health, learning disabilities, child health and elderly services. The Choose […]
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Strand acquires Prism Risk Management
Warrington, Cheshire, based mental health clinical software company Strand Technology has announced that it has acquired Prism Risk Management, a provider of risk management systems to the NHS. The acquisition was completed earlier this month for an undisclosed sum. The deal should enable Strand to offer customers mental health care records systems with integrated […]
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GP contract IM&T incentives announced
GPs are to be offered incentives worth up to £70m in total across England to embrace NHS information and management technology changes. There will also be extra money to implement choice and booking. The proposed changes to the national GPs’ contract, which are due to take effect from 1 April 2006, were published today. The investment […]
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Tees and NE Yorkshire postpones PAS project
Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust has postponed implementation of an iSoft iPM Patient Administration System (PAS). The mental health trust becomes the third NHS trust to tell E-Health Insider they have decided to shelve or postpone implementation of the iSoft system. All three trusts are located in the two Accenture clusters of the NHS […]
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