EHI’s top stories: 2009
Nobody will ever be able to say that the NHS went un-warned about the tough financial times ahead. One of the big themes of 2009 was the likely impact of the credit crunch on the public finances and what that might mean for health service spending after 2011. As 2009 went on, the warnings about […]
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BT announces first RiO in South
BT has announced its first deployment of the RiO community and mental health system in the South of England. Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has become the first to go live with the system as part of the additional contract that BT was awarded under the National Programme for IT in the NHS in April […]
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Newcastle expands use of Millennium
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the first in UK to roll-out order and results and medicines management applications from Cerner.
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St George’s delays Millennium until 2010
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has told E-health Insider that it will delay its implementation of Cerner Millennium until March 2010. The trust had previously been working to an improbable 21 December deadline; just four days before Christmas Day, when many trust staff will be on holiday. By taking more time, the trust says it […]
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Wirral delays Cerner until 2010
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has decided to delay its implementation of Cerner Millennium until 2010.
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Kingston to go-live on 30 November
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust plans to go live with Cerner Millennium on 30 November, in what has become a critical milestone for the £12.7 billion NHS IT programme.
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Newcastle makes switch to Cerner
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has successfully gone live with its new Cerner Millennium hospital information system.
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SCR may have London roll out
The head of the London Programme for IT has admitted that the ‘one size fits all’ approach to deploying Cerner Millennium was a “mistake”. Speaking at E-Health Insider Live ’09, Kevin Jarrold said a “significantly different” approach was being taken at Kingston Hospital and St George’s Hospital NHS trusts, which are due to go live […]
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Newcastle set to switch on Millennium
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planning for a “low-key” go live of its new Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system tonight.
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Connelly sets benchmark for November
The Department of Health’s chief information officer, Christine Connelly, has spelled out the criteria against which progress on the delivery of the Lorenzo and Millennium care records systems will be judged.
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