Cerner predicted to replace GE in London
An analyst report from the US has said that there is a high probability that clinical software firm Cerner will replace GE Healthcare as main the supplier of clinical systems to the NHS in London. If a change does occur it is likely to initially result in further delivery delays to modernising NHS IT systems […]
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Oasis chosen by Dudley as preferred PAS application
Dudley Hospital NHS Trust and Siemens Medical Solutions have selected Capula Healthcare to supply and implement its Oasis Patient Administration System (PAS), as part of the ongoing Private Finance Initiative project at the trust. Siemens has worked with Dudley under a PFI deal for four years to provide new IT systems and digital imaging. The […]
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Morecambe Bay goes live with PAS from CSC
Three sites in University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust have gone live with an iSoft patient administration system (PAS) that includes, for the first time, the A&E administration module from iSoft’s Lorenzo reference solution. CSC, the local service provider for the North West and West Midlands, installed the system in a ‘big bang’ implementation, […]
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Birmingham Women’s goes live with iPM
Birmingham Women’s Health Care NHS Trust has gone live with a new NHS Connecting for Health patient administration system provided by local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation. The specialist trust migrated from its old McKesson TPA PAS to the new iPM system, supplied by iSoft, over the weekend of 21-22 April and was up and […]
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Ascribe buys Jade Health
Acquisitive Bolton-based health IT group Ascribe has bought Jade Health from Jade Software Corporation, extending its product into mental health, and providing it with a presence in the Australasian market. Jade Health provides IT solutions to 24 hospitals and health service organisations in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Under the terms of the agreement, […]
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Trusts can keep McKesson PAS systems to 2010
US healthcare IT giant McKesson has signed a deal with NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering the NHS IT programme, to continue to support customers using its legacy TotalCARE and STAR Patient Administration Systems (PAS) until 2010. The deal with CfH’s existing systems supplier programme is the latest indication that the […]
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CSC helps cut patient referral times
A new strategic patient administration system installed at a primary care trust in North Manchester has helped to slash the time taken for new referrals to be registered for podiatry clinics. According to figures from Computer Sciences Corportation (CSC), which installed the iSoft iPM patient administration system (PAS), North Manchester PCT has seen the average waiting time for a new […]
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Ascribe buys into the PAS market
Ascribe, the healthcare IT group, today announced its entry into the patient administration system market with the acquisition of Barwick Systems in a £2m cash deal. Barwick Systems provides software to 13 hospitals around the UK, many of which also use Ascribe’s pharmacy or accident & emergency systems. Ascribe said: “This acquisition enables Ascribe to […]
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Northumbria goes outside NPfIT for PAS
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust has gone out to tender for a patient administration system as a result of delays in the availability of a suitable system that meets the trust’s requirements under the NHS national programme for IT. The acute hospital trust this week placed a procurement notice in the Official Journal of the European […]
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Work underway to fix records problem in iPM
A problem has been identified in iSoft’s iPM patient administration software, which, under certain circumstances, can lead to patients’ electronic records not being correctly updated and records becoming unviewable by NHS staff. Efforts are now underway to try and identify effected patient records, restore missing data and put the problem right. Official guidance has also […]
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