Accenture adds four new firms to LSP team
Accenture, local service provider (LSP) for the North East and Eastern regions of the NHS in England, has added four further technology providers to its LSP ticket, signing deals with Cognos, EMC Documentum, First DataBank Europe and Informatica. In December 2003 Accenture won two LSP deals from the National Programme for IT to design, deliver […]
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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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Standards stimulate health IT market, say analysts
Government legislation on healthcare IT is encouraging growth and innovation in the Europe, with the National Programme for IT and personal health record initiatives in France and Germany leading the vanguard of development, according to a new report by analysts Frost & Sullivan. “The European healthcare IT market is set to experience steady growth, riding […]
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UK doctors could sign off American online drug orders
A Canadian online pharmacies’ lobby has announced that many of its members plan on moving their business to the UK if tough legislation planned by the federal Canadian government outlaws co-signing of medication by doctors without the patients being present. David MacKay, head of the Canadian International Pharmacy Association (CIPA), told the Financial Times that […]
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Decision support software review planned by NICE
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been asked by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to carry out a review of clinical decision support software. A spokesperson for NICE confirmed to E-Health Insider that a review was in the early stages of planning and development and that the NPfIT requested the review take […]
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Great Ormond Street selects JAC for drug management
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has signed a contract with JAC Computer Services, a division of US-based Mediware Information Systems, for the provision of medicine management software. The contract will deliver a computerised medicines management system to support the delivery of clinical-care processes associated with the prescribing and administration of medicines to children. […]
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Release the pharmacists
Better application of technology could take the administrative burden away from hospital pharmacists, leaving them free to concentrate on patient care.
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InPS acquires retail pharmacy IT solution
Healthcare IT systems specialist, In Practice Systems (InPS), has announced the acquisition of the UK arm of NDCHealth whose Pharmacy Manager solution is used in over 2,000 pharmacies, representing nearly 20% of the UK market. The sale, completed at the end of October, was made to Cegedim SA, InPS’s Paris-based owner, and NDC Health Ltd will […]
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The impact of the new National Care Record Service (NCRS) on primary care.
Kingsley Manning, Chief Executive of Newchurch Limited, discusses far-reaching effects that the National Care Record Service will have on primary care.
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E-prescribing benefits flow for Liverpool hospital
Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust has announced the completion of e-prescribing in all but one of its in-patient clinical areas. Only the neonatal unit remains to be covered by the Meditech EP system, built with technology partners FileTek UK. The system provides total integration between the pharmacy stock system, patient prescriptions and other patient-based Meditech […]
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