November go-live for first London SCR
NHS Southwark has been named as the first primary care trust in London to roll-out the Summary Care Record and will go-live with it in November. The Princess Street Group Practice in the Elephant and Castle area has already started sending letters to local patients, telling them about the SCR and the options that they […]
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London carnival on hold for RiO
Further implementations of the latest RiO community and mental health software in London and the South have been put on hold until September. The mounting delay means that up to five months will have passed since installations were stopped in April. Local service provider BT and the London Programme for IT previously said they planned […]
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EMIS LV approved for SCR roll out
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that EMIS’s LV system has achieved full roll out approval for the Summary Care Record, which the agency has described as major breakthrough for the programme.
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Siemens wins South African Soarian deal
Siemens Healthcare has won an €18m deal to provide 37 hospitals and 300 clinics in South Africa with its Soarian MedSuite healthcare IT software.
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National prison contract for TPP
The Department of Health has announced that TPP’s SystmOne Prison has been selected as the first national clinical IT system for prisons. The decision, previewed in EHI Primary Care last month, means primary care trusts now have until the end of December 2010 to deploy the system across all prisons in England. The DH said […]
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Southern NHS trusts get systems of choice
NHS trusts in the South of England are to be offered a choice of systems and to have them funded as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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French hospital gets Smart
JAOtech Obie Smart More than 600 JAOtech Obie Smart Terminals, for use by clinicians and patients, have been installed at the Centre Hospitalier de la Region d’Annecy in South East France. The deployment of the 17-inch all-in-one terminals, which provide medical staff with secure access to clinical data at the patients’ bedside, is believed to […]
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London RiO upgrades remain on hold
Upgrades to the RiO community and mental health system remain on hold in London, despite a two week deadline to fix problems, which passed a fortnight ago. As first reported by E-Health Insider on 14 May, BT provided upgrades to version 5.1 of RiO were suspended at all NHS trusts in London after a series […]
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Royal Berkshire selects UPMC for Cerner
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has selected University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre as its preferred partner to deliver a new electronic patient record system.
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EMIS loads first SCRs
IT computer supplier EMIS has uploaded its first Summary Care Records to the Spine, as all six early adopter primary care trusts are going live with the SCR. West Heath Surgery in NHS South Birmingham began uploading records two weeks ago and has created just over 3,200 SCRs so far, NHS Connecting for Health has confirmed. […]
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