First NPfIT deployment plans released
The £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has published a summary of its deployment plans for the first time, indicating what new IT systems are intended to be deployed to NHS organisations and by when, writes Jon Hoeksma. According to the plan, which is available here, deployment of hospital administration and clinical systems will begin […]
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A few billion between friends?
After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check on understanding of this key issue.
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Getting ready for the leap forward
With the National Programme for IT now geared up for delivery, Paul Charnley, regional implementation director for the North West and West Midlands cluster, spoke to E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma…
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Harrogate GPs get order communications
GPs in Harrogate are now able to request pathology tests online using an order communications system implemented by Anglia Healthcare Systems and EMIS. The new system enables test requests ordered by GPs and the subsequent reports generated to be electronically linked to secondary care systems and integrated into the GP patient record. Roll out of […]
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HC 2003 – Pick of the Product and Service News
Healthcare Computing is a traditional launch pad for healthcare IT products and services and the industry did not disappoint this year. We list below a selection of the new launches, versions and deals announced at Harrogate last week. Click here for a full list of exhibitors. Telemedicine Solutions from Tandberg Tandberg demonstrated its videoconferencing solution, […]
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Optimum HealthWare Wins North Cheshire Contract
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded a contract to Optimum HealthWare for its MultiVue patient indexing tool to provide a single view of patients’ details across multiple systems and sites. The trust, formed from a merger of Halton and Warrington Hospitals, has patient administration, clinical and departmental legacy systems, each with their own patient […]
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Cedars-Sinai Suspends Use of New Clinical IT System
Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, the largest private hospital in the Western US, has suspended use of a prestige multimillion-dollar computerised system for doctors’ orders, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Doctors at the hospital are reported to have complained that it was endangering patient safety and required too much work. […]
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Luton & Dunstable Recognised for EPR Work
The Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust has been recognised in this year’s Public Private Finance Awards for the first stage of its Electronic Patient Record (EPR) project. The award was made to Luton & Dunstable and software supplier iSOFT in the category of best operational project under £20 million. Luton & Dunstable were nominated […]
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