Royal Free go-live with Millennium R1 CRS
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go-live with a Cerner Millennium Release 1 Care Records System. The trust went live with the new Patient Administration System, delivered by local service provider BT, over the weekend, and will be using it for accident and emergency, order communications, inpatient, maternity, […]
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iSoft signs £5m deal with GHG
iSoft has signed a new £5m deal to become a strategic health information technology partner of the private healthcare firm, General Healthcare Group (GHG). The six-year deal will see GHG license and implement iSoft’s patient management (iPM) systems at its 47 BMI Healthcare private acute care hospitals and its Netcare centres. Additional services will be […]
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Microsoft gets serious about health
Dr Bill Crounse, MD, Microsoft’s senior worldwide director of health, tells E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma, that health is Microsoft’s fastest growing specialist group.
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Full Lorenzo benefits expected 2012
Latest plans for the delivery of the Lorenzo next generation clinical software system under the NHS IT programme show it is not expected to be fully implemented until 2012. The strategic software, currently under development by iSoft, is to be delivered by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in the North, East and Midlands, to three-fifths of […]
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System C goes live in Isle of Man hospitals
System C has completed installation of its MedWay patient management system in two hospitals on the Isle of Man, less than nine months after the contract was awarded. The integrated systems went live on the exact date agreed with the Isle of Man at the outset of the contract and without any contract change notices. […]
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Microsoft acquires hospital IT software from GCS
Microsoft Corporation has continued its push into the health IT systems market with the acquisition of a number of assets from Global Care Solutions, a Bangkok, Thailand-based, developer of enterprise-class health information systems. GCS offers several health-care IT products that run on Windows, including software that automates patient record keeping, billing, regulatory compliance, and clinical […]
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Whittington pilots McKesson clinician portal
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust has become the first in the UK to pilot a new single sign-on gateway portal from health software specialist McKesson. The Horizon Physician Portal, originally developed for the US-market, provides one view of data from disparate source systems and a single point of access to multiple stand-alone systems in use […]
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South edges towards ‘best of breed’ approach
The re-negotiation of the NHS IT Programme contract between Fujitsu and the NHS in the South of England appears to be heading towards a best of breed approach.
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Major overhaul for Addenbrooke’s theatre system
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is upgrade its TheatreMan theatre management system to improve both the day-to-day information available to clinicians and longer term planning. The flagship Cambridge teaching hospital was previously using a dated UNIX version of TheatreMan, which was not in line with other IT developments, and will now to move to the Windows version of the system. […]
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UCLH deploys 18 week RTT solution
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a new system from LogicaCMG to support compliance with the government’s 18 week referral to treatment (RTT) objective. The trust wanted to be able to electronically track the progress of every patient referred to them to ensure that they were offered an appointment within 18 weeks, […]
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