St George’s suffers Cerner teething pain
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust is facing teething problems with its installation of a Cerner Millennium hospital information system.
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St George’s gets Cerner for Easter
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with Cerner Millennium, the strategic electronic patient record system provided by London’s local service provider, BT.
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St George’s delays Millennium until 2010
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has told E-health Insider that it will delay its implementation of Cerner Millennium until March 2010. The trust had previously been working to an improbable 21 December deadline; just four days before Christmas Day, when many trust staff will be on holiday. By taking more time, the trust says it […]
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DH’s lead on acute choice leaves
The NHS chief information officer leading work on offering acute trusts in the South a choice of IT systems has left the Department of Health for a new job. John-Jo Campbell, the chief information officer at NHS South Central SHA, had been seconded to the DH’s Informatics Directorate by director general of informatics Christine Connelly. […]
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iSoft reveals European and UK deals
iSoft has announced that it has secured new business and renewal of contracts worth €8.4m in the UK and central Europe over the past month. iSoft Northern Europe says it has secured new orders worth €3.1 m, while iSoft UK and Ireland has agreed contract extensions worth £4.22m for ongoing maintenance and support. New orders […]
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St Mary’s delays go-live of CRS
The deployment of a London Cluster Release 1 Care Records System at the St Mary’s campus of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has been delayed by a month due to “significant uncertainties.” The hospital was due to go live on 14 July with the Cerner Millennium system, but opted to defer deployment to the end […]
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Six London trusts get RiO for mental health
Six mental health trusts in London are now using new IT systems, delivered under the NHS IT programme, to help deliver better care to patients. The six trusts, which account for 60% of the mental health trusts in the capital, are now using these new computerised patient record systems, as part of a London-wide NHS […]
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Moorfields goes live with locally developed EPR
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London has gone live with a new electronic patient record (EPR) system developed by the trust together with Stalis and supported by Intersystems. The new EPR, known at the trust as the Moorfields Care Record Management Service (MCRS) is a highly specialised EPR designed to meet the particular […]
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iSoft claim Australian successes
iSoft have announced the initial rollout of its iPM PAS system at Orange Base Hospital, in Orange, near Sydney, Australia. The implementation of the patient administration system is the first stage of the Manchester-based company’s scheme to rollout iPM to 123 public hospitals in New South Wales. iSoft is working with the state’s healthcare IT […]
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St George’s publishes all mortality data online
St George’s Hospital, Tooting, south London, has become the first NHS hospital in the UK to publish graphs of mortality rates online for all medical disciplines carried out at the hospital from the year 2000. The information, published six months after the trust published detailed statistics of cardiology mortality rates according to surgeons, are available online […]
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