Royal Free builds Cerner checklists
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has developed a fully auditable set of checklists and actions for clinicians working with patients with gastro-intestinal bleeding within Cerner Millennium.
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Kingston to go-live on 30 November
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust plans to go live with Cerner Millennium on 30 November, in what has become a critical milestone for the £12.7 billion NHS IT programme.
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Cerner predicts more FT contract wins
Cerner expects its annual UK turnover to rise by around £25m, to as much £61m, as more NHS foundation trusts select its electronic record software and it collects revenue from the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Cerner, which provides its Millennium software in London and parts of the South under local service provider […]
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CfH jigsaw still ‘missing pieces’
The NHS IT programme is a jigsaw “still missing pieces” that need “to be found and put in place”.
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Calling time
Wandsworth abandons Cerner plans
NHS Wandsworth has abandoned plans to install Cerner Millennium at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, saying the system is not suited to modern community-based services. The primary care trust said the change to its IT plans was due to repeated delays and concerns about security as well as the unsuitability of Millennium for federated Polyclinic models […]
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Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
Has the bar been dropped so low that the NHS IT programme is now guaranteed to succeed? Asks Jon Hoeksma.
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Bellamy learns from Royal Free
Martin Bellamy has said that lessons learned at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust will inform future system deployments under the National Programme for IT in the NHS. The head of NHS Connecting for Health and director of programme and systems delivery described the acute sector as the “Achilles heel of the national programme.” However, […]
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Cerner commits to acting locally
Cerner has started working with NHS trusts on a new, local implementation model that is designed to prevent the repitition of past mistakes, and focus on clinical benefits. The company says that through its NHS contract it still has the potential to transform the entire healthcare economy, but says that while holding on to the […]
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