Lorenzo delivery plans now stretch past 2010
E-Health Insider has learned that the latest plans for the delivery of Lorenzo software in the North of England are based on key elements of the software not being available for deployment into the NHS as an integrated solution until after 2010. Under the revised four-stage plan, codenamed Penfield, order communications tools would be delivered […]
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Barnet and Chase Farm switch on Cerner
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first London hospital to go live with Cerner Millennium as part of the multi-billion pound NHS IT programme.
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Lessons learned
Southern England, perhaps more than any other region, has produced a mixed picture of NHS IT modernisation. Senior executives from local service provider, Fujitsu, explain the real situation as they see it.
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Mid-Staffs gets iCM after five year wait
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has begun piloting iSoft’s iCM clinical management system on two wards, five years after they signed a ten-year deal with the supplier. The trust first signed a contract with iSoft in October 2002, just before the National Programme for IT began in earnest and have been sporadically working on implementing […]
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Surrey and Sussex becomes sixth Millennium site in South
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, the latest trust to go-live with Cerner’s Millennium R0 patient administration system (PAS) delivered by local service provider Fujitsu. The trust has successfully completed their 45 day implementation programme, but have opted not to deploy order comms functionality yet. The trust, which went live on 20 April, delayed deployment of […]
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The end of the beginning?
Are we at the end of the beginning of NHS IT modernisation? Jon Hoeksma tests Churchill’s famous quote against the evidence.
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Model for the future
In a personal opinion article Pete Marsh, Technical Director of Wirral Health Informatics Service offers an alternative model for the future, questioning the value of PAS systems in clinical settings.
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60 second interview: Peter Knight
In the first in a new series of 60 second interviews with NHS IT leaders, Joe Fernandez speaks to Peter Knight from Winchester & Eastleigh NHS Trust.
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Ipswich struggles with iSoft order communications glitches
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, has experienced persistent problems getting its new Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)-provided iSoft iPM patient administration system and iCM clinical software to communicate with clinical requests sent from iCM not being picked up by iPM. The trust went live with the new systems, provided by CSC under the NHS IT programme, over the […]
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Ipswich installs first national programme iCM
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has become the first trust to receive an iSoft iCM clinical system under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) after local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation deployed the system with the iPM patient administration system (PAS) last weekend. As well as the Ipswich deployment, CSC also implemented an iPM PAS in […]
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