BT ‘de-couples’ London Cerner development from South
BT the local service provider for London is to develop its own version of Cerner Millennium for London, separate to the version of the system being installed and developed for use in NHS trusts across the South of England. BT’s decision to de-couple London from the South appears to have been prompted by well documented […]
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Milton Keynes MP asks when Millennium will be fixed
Reports of missing patient records resulting from the new Cerner Millennium system at Milton Keynes NHS Trust have led local Member of Parliament, Mark Lancaster, to write to the Health Secretary to ask when the Care Records System at the trust will be "fit for purpose". The system has been provided by local service provider […]
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Milton Keynes goes live with Cerner
Milton Keynes General Hospital has become the fifth NHS hospital trust in the South of England to go live with a Cerner patient administration system supplied by local service provider Fujitsu as part of the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. In addition to the acute trust the system has gone live into community hospitals […]
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Nuffield Hospitals sign for Initiate EMPI
Initiate Systems has been awarded a contract to build an Enterprise Master Patient Index which will enable staff at Nuffield Hospitals around the country to integrate data from their existing systems and create a single record for each patient. As revealed by E-Health Insider in January, Nuffield Hospitals will have Agfa Healthcare’s IMPAX 6.2 Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) […]
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New Cerner deployment goes live in Hampshire
Another health community within the Southern Cluster has gone live with Cerner’s Milllennium patient administration system, delivered by local service provider, Fujitsu as part of the NHS IT programme. The Cerner system was deployed into three trusts, including one acute trust, as part of the implementation into what Fujitsu terms the ‘Hampshire Deployment Family’. The trusts […]
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Millennium delays creating financial risks, trust warns
A report by Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust on delayed plans to deploy Cerner Millennium warns that current reporting difficulties with the system "could have an impact on all remaining Cluster R0 go-live dates". The trust board paper seen by EHI warns that should delays to the availability of a system that meets requirements […]
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Agfa delivers PACS to the private sector
Agfa Healthcare have announced two new contracts with private hospital chains to install their Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) software, IMPAX 6.2. The Belgian-based image-specialists have confirmed that they will be delivering the PACS system along with other medical imaging systems to both the Nuffield Hospitals group and the Classic Hospitals group. Nuffield Hospitals […]
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Nuffield Hospitals begin rollout of direct Choose and Book
The Nuffield Hospitals group have gone live with the directly bookable NHS Choose and Book system at its site in Plymouth. The group spent nine months liaising and testing the system with the assistance of Connecting for Health (CfH) and iSoft and successfully deployed the system last month. Nuffield have installed the system in their […]
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Cerner problems ‘reported before NOC go-live’
A problem with appointment bookings that hit Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital when it went live with its new Cerner system had been reported previously by a London hospital, according to a television report. The problem resulted in some patients not receiving appointments and others presenting when the hospital was not expecting them. It also resulted in […]
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Nuffield aims for ‘paperless’ hospital finance
Nuffield hospitals, the UK independent hospitals group, has signed a contract with document management specialists Version One to implement its electronic form design, automated document delivery and electronic payment technologies across its 40 hospitals. The Version One software will replace Nuffield’s current manual processes, which involves signing and posting cheques with hard-copy remittance advices, and […]
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