Cerner completes first Spanish roll-out
US healthcare IT giant Cerner has completed the first implementation of Cerner Millennium in Spain. Hospital de Denia Marina Salud, on the East coast of Spain, went live with the electronic medical record across the whole hospital and some associated primary care clinics earlier this month, less than 18 months after selecting the system. It has implemented […]
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Barts faces fines over Cerner problems
Barts and the London NHS Trust faces fines of £400,000 a month for missing patient care targets as a result of problems with its new Cerner Millennium Care Records System, MPs have been told. Richard Bacon, the Conservative MP for South Norfolk, and a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said the new Cerner […]
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Barts 18 week backlog in thousands
A new care record system has contributed to thousands of patients from Barts and the London NHS Trust potentially breaching the national 18-week referral to treatment time target. The trust is facing a backlog of 23,000 potential breaches, and although it says the situation is improving – and it has resumed reporting on 18-week waits […]
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St George’s wants Cerner for Xmas
St George’s Hospital NHS Trust in South-West London has taken a strategic decision to try and begin using Cerner Millennium by Christmas.
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Cerner monitors CT scans at St James’s
St James’s Hospital, the largest hospital in Ireland, has implemented an electronic support system into its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record (EPR) to reduce patient exposure to radiation.
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Cerner go-live at Newcastle delayed
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has decided to take additional time before going live with a big bang implementation of Cerner Millennium.
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Cerner predicts more FT contract wins
Cerner expects its annual UK turnover to rise by around £25m, to as much £61m, as more NHS foundation trusts select its electronic record software and it collects revenue from the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Cerner, which provides its Millennium software in London and parts of the South under local service provider […]
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Docs call for clinical review of NPfIT
The British Medical Association’s annual representative meeting has called for a clinically led review of the National Programme for IT in the NHS and for more action to protect patient privacy.
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Queen Mary’s to investigate EMIS Web
NHS Wandsworth is exploring whether EMIS Web could take the role intended for Cerner Millenium at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton, London. The primary care trust has abandoned plans to install Millenium at Queen Mary’s Hospital, as reported by E-Health Insider in May, saying the system is not suited to modern community-based services. Last week […]
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CfH jigsaw still ‘missing pieces’
The NHS IT programme is a jigsaw “still missing pieces” that need “to be found and put in place”.
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