Royal Free go-live with Millennium R1 CRS
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go-live with a Cerner Millennium Release 1 Care Records System. The trust went live with the new Patient Administration System, delivered by local service provider BT, over the weekend, and will be using it for accident and emergency, order communications, inpatient, maternity, […]
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Worthing says Cerner’s functionality ‘inferior’
Cerner Millennium care records system is still suffering from ‘inferior functionality’, leading to ‘significant level of discontent among clinicians’.
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Morecambe sign for new Technidata LIS
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust (UHMBT) have signed a contract with Technidata to implement TD-Synergy, an integrated laboratory information system (LIS) with automated safety tracking features for blood management. The system will handle all laboratory information from the trust’s three separate laboratory sites, based in acute hospitals in Kendal, Lancaster and Barrow, […]
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Suppliers set out vision for ASCC
EHI spoke to a number of ASCC lot 2 suppliers to see what they hope to achieve from the new framework. Joe Fernandez reports.
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iSoft signs £5m deal with GHG
iSoft has signed a new £5m deal to become a strategic health information technology partner of the private healthcare firm, General Healthcare Group (GHG). The six-year deal will see GHG license and implement iSoft’s patient management (iPM) systems at its 47 BMI Healthcare private acute care hospitals and its Netcare centres. Additional services will be […]
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Plans for limited Lorenzo delivery slip
Dates for the implementation of new Lorenzo clinical software in parts of two NHS trusts are continuing to slip.
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Great Yarmouth GPs use pathology e-requesting
GP practices in East Anglia are using a new order communications solution called GP RequestVision from Olympus, to request pathology tests from the nearby James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. GPs from practices in Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney are using the solution to order pathology tests online via a simple tick box style form, interfaced […]
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Worthing says PAS teething problems over
Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust says it has resolved initial teething problems of its new Cerner Millennium patient administration system, provided by local service provider Fujitsu. The go-live has described by sources close to the trust as the best implementation of Cerner Millennium under the NHS IT project to date, but one which still requires extensive […]
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Lorenzo plan unlikely before year end
Alternative delivery plans – codenamed Penfield – developed by Computer Sciences Corporation for delivery of the next generation Lorenzo clinical software for three-fifths of the English NHS are unlikely to be completed before the end of the year. One of the NHS chief information officers taking a lead on the Lorenzo Penfield plan has told […]
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