RIO becomes strategic solution for London
CSE-Servelec has announced to financial markets that it has completed contract negotiations with BT to provide its RiO system to NHS community, mental health trusts and child health trusts in London. BT is the prime contractor, or local service provider, responsible for upgrading health service IT systems in the capital as part of the £6.2bn […]
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BT completes switch to Cerner
BT, the local service provider for London under the NHS IT investment programme, has confirmed that it has completed the switch from GE Healthcare to Cerner as its main clinical software sub-contractor. The company said in its its half year results today: "BT continues to make good progress on its NHS National Programme for Information Technology […]
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Hounslow PCT launches remote access
Network integration specialist Scalable Networks has teamed up with Hounslow Primary Care Trust to set up a new home and roaming access service for 700 staff. The system has been set up to prepare the trust for its implementation of CSE-Servelec’s web-based Electronic Care Record system, RiO, at the end of next month. RiO will allow […]
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INPS Vision 4 to be London’s core GP solution
INPS’s Vision 4 is to be the core primary care solution offered to practices in London. The decision to opt for INPS (formerly In Practice Systems) as the preferred supplier in the capital is outlined in two letters to primary care trust chief executives from BT and London NHS chief executive David Nicholson yesterday. Patrick […]
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NHS officially told of London Cerner switch
NHS trusts across the capital today received official confirmation that BT is to replace GE Healthcare – previously IDX Systems – for Cerner as its supplier of electronic patient record software in London. As first reported by E-Health Insider on 13 June, BT will replace IDX, its current clinical software supplier, with Cerner for secondary care. […]
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NE trust faces clinical systems conundrum
A mental health trust board formed from three merged organisations has been advised to stop using a clinical information system supplied under the National Programme for IT on part of its new territory and use another single system across the whole trust. Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust board members received a paper on options […]
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CfH aims to install at 22 acute trusts by October
NHS Connecting for Health and its prime contractors have told a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee that they will deliver at least 22 new patient administration system (PAS) replacements to NHS acute trusts by the end of October this year. The figure does not include any London trusts. To date the programme has […]
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Enfield PCT back to paper after computer failure
A London PCT has had to switch off its computer system and start recording patients’ details with pen and paper while it waits for a replacement to be delivered by the NHS IT programme. Enfield Primary Care Trust has switched off its two ageing iSoft PiMS patient administration systems, after experiencing frequent problems and interruptions to the service — including outages […]
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Three PCTs decline London’s ‘interim’ community system
Three primary care trusts in London have declined to take the ‘interim’ RiO community system being offered by BT due to concerns about its limited clinical functionality and the high costs of implementation they would face. Individual community and mental health trusts face implementation costs of up to £500,000 and the prospect of having to […]
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Rio to be ‘interim’ mental health system in London
BT Capital Care Alliance, the Local Service Provider for London, has selected CSE Servelec’s RiO system as an interim community and mental health solution to meet the immediate needs trusts in London. The initial order will see RiO deployed at over 20 trusts across London during 2006 by BT CCA as part of the National […]
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