North Mersey looks beyond iPM
North Mersey Health Informatics Service is preparing to deploy Lorenzo Regional Care next year, having successfully rolled out one of its predecessors across two primary care trusts. The HIS has been delivering iSoft’s iPM – which is known locally as Lorenzo – to services run by Liverpool Primary Care Trust and NHS Sefton. The phased […]
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Over here
Is Cerner Millennium over big, over corporate and over hard to deploy? Or is it a great system that just needs time and investment ? Neil Versel reports.
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Shake up in Informatics Planning
Local health communities have been instructed to move towards “information-led rather than service-led planning” and to create new structures to plan and deliver the IT needed to do it. Informatics Planning 2009-10, a document published alongside the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, further shifts attention from the National Programme for IT in […]
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Just champion
Sue Rushbrook won the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year award for her work on a voice and data network that has now been integrated with core computer systems.
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Lorenzo stalled at Morecambe Bay
The latest deadline for the implementation of Lorenzo at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has passed and there is currently no go-live date.
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Behind the scenes of an EPR deployment: part two
In July, E-Health Insider visited Benenden Hospital in Kent, as it prepared to deploy an Oasis electronic patient record system. Barry Murphy provides a progress update.
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Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has found the first deployment of the London cluster version of Cerner’s Millennium care records system demanding; with delays in some of its busiest clinics. Although still in the early days of what it describes as a fairly successful implementation, the trust says in a board paper that the new […]
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Chasing a chimera
Dr John Somers of Nottingham City Hospital explains how England’s PACS programme is hoping to make PACS the repository for all radiological images.
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LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review
The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.
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Scotland commits to incremental e-health
The Scottish government has pledged consolidate its SCI Gateway and Store, and enhance its Emergency Care Summary Service.
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