iSoft purchases BridgeForward
Australian health software specialist iSoft has purchased US hospital data integration specialist BridgeForward for £9m. The acquisition gives iSoft a toehold in the burgeoning US market, which the company sees as critical to its future growth. The deal also reinforces iSoft’s position in the UK, where BridgeForward’s integration technology is widely used, with clients including […]
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At least four southern trusts plan for Lorenzo
At least four hospitals in the South of England intend to implement Lorenzo, according to informatics plans, with community and mental health trusts taking systems from both TPP and CSE-Servelec. In NHS South Central, several hospital trusts that have yet to receive a system under the National Programme for IT in the NHS appear to be planning […]
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Consultation into ethics of new technologies
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has launched a public consultation on the ethical issues related to online healthcare, telemedicine and commercial medical profiling technologies. The consultation will form the next stage of its inquiry into The Ethics of Personalised Healthcare in the Consumer Age, which was launched in October 2008. The council’s expert working group […]
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Call to re-tender for Fujitsu replacement
Conservative health minister Stephen O’Brien has called for a “proper” tendering process to replace Fujitsu as local service provider in the South of England.
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Bucks had CRS infection control issues for 18 months
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust was forced to develop workarounds for isolating MRSA patients after Cerner’s Millennium care records system was unable to cope with its superbug monitoring system for 18 months. In minutes obtained by E-Health Insider under the Freedom of Information Act, the trust’s National Programme for IT in the NHS programme board says […]
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Milton Keynes’ CRS caused ‘near melt down’
The deployment of a national programme care records system at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust “developed into an untenable situation which resulted in near melt down of the organisation.”
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No easy answers after Fujitsu
The NHS IT programme faces further delays and difficult decisions on what it does next after firing Fujitsu. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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Millennium fails again across Southern England
Many NHS staff in the south were left unable to use the Cerner Millennium care record system last Wednesday morning, after the Fujitsu-provided system failed across the region for the second time in a month. As a result of problems with the centrally hosted system, that lasted an entire Wednesday morning, some staff had to […]
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Southern trusts hit by CRS failure
The Millennium NHS Care Records System application, meant to become the critical clinical system used by NHS staff across Southern England, went down and stayed down for an hour Thursday morning, 24 April in three out of the eight trusts where it has been installed. Though currently limited to patient administration tasks later versions of […]
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System C launches consultancy business
System C healthcare has launched a new consultancy, Perigon Consulting, intended to help NHS organisations focus on improving services to patients through innovative clinical practice and associated business efficiencies. Perigon, which will operate as a division of System C, has been created by merging Perigon Healthcare, an existing independent healthcare consulting partnership, specialising in ‘future […]
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