What you read in 2014
For the second year running, news about McKesson headed the list of ‘most read’ stories on the EHI website in 2014; but an Epic saga was not far behind.
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Sheffield to spend £33m on Lorenzo
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the tenth trust to sign up to take the Lorenzo electronic patient record system from CSC and estimates the project will cost £33m over ten years.
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IT strategy to save Morecambe Bay £35m
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust could save £35m over the next five years thanks to its IT strategy and implementation of the Lorenzo electronic patient record system, the trust says.
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London trusts on track for PACS exit
London trusts are exiting their national digital imaging contracts on schedule, a bulletin from the Health and Social Care Information Centre has suggested.
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The husky that came back to bite
EHI editor Jon Hoeksma says transparency is needed on how Fujitsu came to exit NPfIT and then win £700m if we are to avoid such an epic waste of taxpayers’ money in the future.
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DH loses Fujitsu dispute
The Department of Health has reportedly lost its long-standing court battle with Fujitsu over the company’s departure from the National Programme for IT.
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Joe’s view of 40m SCRs
Joe McDonald sets out in searing detail why the NHS Summary Care Record could stop the deaths of vulnerable people; and why failing to check it could soon be seen as negligent.
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Lewisham live with Cerner
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has gone live with its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, after a “total overhaul” of its data migration strategy.
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Royal Free, London’s first to exit NPfIT
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust has become the first Cerner Millennium trust in London to exit its National Programme for IT contract.
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PACS exits take longer than expected
Too many trusts exiting their national PACS/RIS systems contracts are leaving “time-critical tasks” to the end of their exit plans, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has said.
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