Vote now for your champion of the year
Voting opens today for the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year, a special category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009, in association with BT.
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CfH on the brink of new deals with CSC and BT
NHS Connecting for Health is on the brink of signing new renegotiated deals with its two main remaining contractors, Computer Sciences Corporation and BT.
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One small step for Lorenzo
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has given Lorenzo a soft landing. Lyn Whitfield went to see it in action.
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Soft launch of Lorenzo at Morecambe Bay
A limited soft launch of the much anticipated Lorenzo electronic patient record has taken place at Furness General Hospital.
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Lorenzo stalled at Morecambe Bay
The latest deadline for the implementation of Lorenzo at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has passed and there is currently no go-live date.
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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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South Birmingham podiatrists first to get Lorenzo
Podiatrists at South Birmingham Primary Care Trust have become the first in the country to receive a version of iSoft’s Lorenzo software under the NHS National Programme for IT. The podiatrists began to use the service after the system went live a week ago. In a statement to EHI NHS Connecting for Health said. "We […]
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CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’
The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon Hextall.
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DH seeks tougher sanctions for security breaches
The government is seeking an increase in penalties for NHS staff that breach the Data Protection Act. Health minister, Ben Bradshaw, made the pledge at a debate on the health select committee report on electronic patient records in Westminster last Thursday. This followed evidence read by chair of the committee, Kevin Barron, citing examples of […]
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NHS IT systems in NWWM slow to recover
Dozens of NHS trusts across the North West and West Midlands remained without access to their main patient management software today, after a Sunday morning failure at a data centre run by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) hosting NHS systems. Some trusts face being without systems until Thursday. The IT disaster, believed to be the most […]
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