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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System C buys private healthcare specialist IQ Systems
System C Healthcare has acquired private sector health IT specialists IQ Systems Services in a deal worth approximately £2m, it was announced today. IQ is a leading supplier of patient management and clinical software solutions for private treatment centres and hospitals. The company’s most popular product is IQUtopia, a purpose-built patient management, healthcare scheduling and clinical […]
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System C to provide CfH with deployment specialists
Health software and consultancy firm System C Healthcare has signed a major new contract to provide healthcare IT deployment specialists to the government’s NHS Connecting for Health agency. Under a framework contract with consultancy services specialist QI Consulting, System C will provide specialist support to NHS Connecting for Health’s central deployment support team, an arm […]
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ScriptSwitch acquired by Isis for almost £10m
Prescribing advice specialists ScriptSwitch has been acquired by Isis Equity Partners in a deal worth almost £10m. The Coventry based firm provides medicines management software to primary care trusts. ScriptSwitch’s managing director, Mike Washburn, said: “ScriptSwitch is a unique prescribing tool that has created its own market opportunity. We are well poised for growth and […]
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Extra suppliers catalogue tender welcomed by industry
Reaction to last week’s publication of the tender for a catalogue of additional healthcare IT suppliers was broadly positive, generating questions about how soon the extra solutions and services would be available not whether the new approach was a good idea. Predictably, the supplier community welcomed the opportunity opened up by the tender. Nick Kalisperas […]
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Isle of Man chooses System C for major contract
System C has won a £7.5m contract to provide an integrated island-wide healthcare IT service in the Isle of Man. The contract was won against stiff competition with senior sources confirming reports that iSoft and Cerner, contractors to provide systems for the NHS in England, were in the running. Nobles Hospital in Douglas and the […]
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System C issues profit warning as NPfIT slows
System C Healthcare has issued a profit warning citing a siginificant slowdown in deployments under the NHS IT programme as a result of a three month "hiatus" during the handover from Accenture to CSC. A spokesperson for System C told EHI: "The hand-over from Accenture to CSC caused a significant hiatus in activity for us during that period. […]
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CSC to continue to deploy TPP systems
CSC has confirmed that it will continue to work with Accenture’s main software sub-contractors in the North east and Eastern NHS regions, and it plans to continue to deploy systems from The Phoenix Partnership into primary and community care. Andrew Spence, the solutions director for CSC Alliance, told EHI Primary Care that following last Thursday’s […]
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System C to aid Fujitsu in NHS CRS rollout
System C has announced that it has signed a contract with Fujitsu to support its work implementing the NHS Care Records Service in the southern region of England stretching from Kent to Cornwall. The contract, which takes effect immediately, will mean that System C healthcare IT specialist staff will work directly with Fujitsu’s deployment teams […]
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Birmingham Women’s goes live with iPM
Birmingham Women’s Health Care NHS Trust has gone live with a new NHS Connecting for Health patient administration system provided by local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation. The specialist trust migrated from its old McKesson TPA PAS to the new iPM system, supplied by iSoft, over the weekend of 21-22 April and was up and […]
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