RiO upgrades suspended in London
Moves to upgrade NHS organisations in London to the latest NHS Spine-connected version of the RiO community and mental health system have been suspended after a series of performance problems.
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BT advanced payments to be deducted
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has said that all of the £92.8m advanced payment made to BT for work in the South will be deducted from the amount paid upon delivery of the systems it is contracted to provide. In a parliamentary written answer, dated 7 May, Bradshaw said all of the sum will be deducted […]
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At least four southern trusts plan for Lorenzo
At least four hospitals in the South of England intend to implement Lorenzo, according to informatics plans, with community and mental health trusts taking systems from both TPP and CSE-Servelec. In NHS South Central, several hospital trusts that have yet to receive a system under the National Programme for IT in the NHS appear to be planning […]
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Four BT Cerner deployments for South
BT is to deploy Cerner Millennium to a further four acute sites in the South of England as part of its deal to take over the eight sites already live with the system. In response to a written question from Conservative health spokesman Stephen O’Brien, health minister Ben Bradshaw said the company would also be […]
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Government ‘remains confident’ in NPfIT
The Department of Health has said that it “remains confident in the potential of both Cerner’s Millennium and iSoft’s Lorenzo to work effectively” once development and testing are completed.
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CfH on the brink of new deals with CSC and BT
NHS Connecting for Health is on the brink of signing new renegotiated deals with its two main remaining contractors, Computer Sciences Corporation and BT.
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BT takes over Cerner sites in the south
BT, the local service provider for London, is to take over responsibility for supporting hospitals in the south of England running Cerner Millennium software.
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Next London Cerner go-live delayed until Autumn
The next deployment of Cerner Millennium in London will not occur until the autumn; more than a year after the last go-live in the capital plunged the Royal Free Hampstead Hospital NHS Trust into crisis.
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Its name is RiO
The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health outlines the benefits of the RiO electronic care records system to London.
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Talks over BT role in London primary care systems
BT may drop responsibility for delivering new primary care systems in London and focus on building an integration engine for existing systems, EHI Primary Care understands. The local service provider for London is in contract talks about the GP solution that could see it end its responsibility to deliver new primary care systems in the […]
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