TeesPath and CSW launch lab-links project
County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic Health Authority (CDTV SHA) has signed a contract with CSW to use its CaseNotes product to link together the information contained in the pathology systems locally. The aim is to reduce inefficiencies and improve access of information to clinicians. The contract, brokered through the local Clinical Network of Pathology services […]
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IDX finalises subcontractor agreement with BT for London
IDX Systems Corporation has announced that it had finalised its subcontract agreement with BT to provide clinical information technology systems and services to BT in its role as the London local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT. BT was awarded a £996 million, 10-year contract by the NHS on 8 December, 2003 […]
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Granger terminates EDS’s NHSmail contract
The National Programme for IT has terminated the £90 million NHSmail contract with Electronic Data Systems to provide email and directory services to one million NHS staff. Richard Granger, director-general of NHS IT, last week pulled the plug on the 10-year EDS contract for the NHSmail web-based email service. A national programme spokesperson confirmed to […]
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BT awarded NHS broadband contract
BT has won the N3 (New National Network) contract to provide and manage a broadband network to link all NHS organisations in England, health minister, John Hutton, announced today. As had been widely anticipated, BT was chosen ahead Cable and Wireless for the N3 contract, which will see it act as integrator, rather than as a broadband service provider iteself. […]
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IDX predicts $1 billion revenues from LSP contracts
IDX Corporation has revealed that it expects to see revenues of $1 billion (£525 million) over ten years from its role as the principal clinical systems and related services provider for the London and South of England Local Service Provider contracts. The company has also briefed US analysts that while the contracts contain milestone […]
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StHAs report improved data quality with eDQRS
Positive reports from NHS users of the web-based service, eDQRS, say it is a major asset for improving data quality within ClearNET and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data warehouse. The service, supplied by McKesson and Ardentia, has been available to all of England’s 28 strategic health authorities (StHAs) since August 2003 to check the […]
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Fujitsu presents its LSP line-up
Fujitsu Services has provided further details of the members of its Local Service Provider (LSP) consortia line-up, following Monday’s announcement that it had been awarded the LSP contract for the South of England. The team, known as the Fujitsu Alliance, comprises Fujitsu as prime contractor; IDX Systems Corporation for the core clinical application; Tata Consultancy […]
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South awarded to Fujitsu
The Fujitsu Alliance has been awarded the final Local Service Provider (LSP) contract for the South of England to deliver the NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS) under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT)in England. The contract for £896 million, due to run until 2013, was announced today by health secretary, John Reid. The Fujitsu Alliance, offering IDX as its […]
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Will the national programme pay for contestability?
Perhaps the most intriguing speculation to have emerged in recent weeks is the suggestion that iSOFT, triumphant in three of the four clusters contracts so far announced – the North East, North West and Eastern – is leveraging the economies of scale made possible by initial wins to offer a very low price for the whole of […]
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Granger says final LSP contract will come when ‘right’
The final local service provider (LSP) contract for the South of England will be signed in the New Year, when suppliers have "responded to treatment", says NHS IT director-general Richard Granger. In a short interview with E-Health Insider on the day that two of the remaining three LSP contracts were signed Granger said he was […]
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