CfH signs £36m McKesson PAS support deal
NHS Connecting for Health has signed a £36m, four year deal with McKesson to continue to provide support for the patient administration systems used by 26 trusts.
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‘Four more years’ for McKesson
The Department of Health is negotiating four year support deals for the 21 NHS hospital trusts running McKesson patient administration systems.
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£800m already spent on NPfIT in South
The National Programme for IT in the NHS has spent two thirds of its original allocation, but one strategic health authority is confident a programme of IT upgrades can still be delivered.
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Bury goes live with first Lorenzo PAS
E-Health Insider has learned that NHS Bury has gone-live with Lorenzo Release 1.9, the first version of the software to include native patient administration functionality.
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NI awards €78m contract to HP
Northern Ireland’s Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has awarded a contract worth up to €78.5m to Hewlett-Packard to update the technology behind the country’s hospital patient administration systems. The framework contract includes procuring ICT equipment and services for regional projects across Northern Ireland over the next four years and providing a range […]
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South liable for greenfield penalties
The NHS will be liable to pay £44m to BT if it fails to deliver four ‘greenfield’ sites in the South of England ready and willing to take Cerner Millennium.
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Orion wins Northern Ireland ECR deal
Northern Ireland has named Orion as the winner of a procurement for a proof of concept project for a province-wide electronic care record (ECR). The one-year deal will be to develop a new portal-based electronic health record, predominantly for use in secondary care but linking hospitals and practices, with the potential to also link social […]
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EHI’s industry round up 11.09.2009
This edition of E-Health Insider’s industry round-up covers partnerships and new product launches in the healthcare IT market and deployments in the NHS.
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Dartford uses Itanium as bridge to EPR
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is taking forward plans for an electronic patient record system by putting a new hardware platform under the latest version of iSoft’s PatientCentre patient administration system.
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Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
Can BT and CSC deliver? Three months after they were given new deadlines, EHI editor Jon Hoeksma is doubtful.
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