GP Systems of Choice procurement on track but late
The GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) scheme looks likely to go ahead – although procurement will not be complete by 1 April as originally planned. A spokesperson for CfH told EHI Primary Care that the GPSoC business case was approved by the Department of Health in December 2006. Approval from the Treasury is still outstanding but […]
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Siemens take over leading German systems provider
Siemens Medical Solutions have acquired the German health information systems developers Gesellschaft für Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen mbH (GSD). GSD currently provide their i.s.h.med system to 260 hospitals worldwide, which they describe as “the only integrated clinical work station system for SAP for Healthcare” and have had a long-standing partnership with Siemens in ensuring […]
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Ireland’s Systems Solutions merges with Medicom
Systems Solutions, a provider of software systems to the Irish pharmacy sector has announced it is to merge with Medicom, the leading provider of software to the Irish GP sector. The deal will create one of Ireland’s largest health ICT companies. Under the deal Systems Solutions will acquire the majority stake in Medicom. The resulting […]
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Out of hours record systems review ordered by DH
The Department of Health (DH) has instructed all primary care trusts (PCTs) to review the use of paper-based systems by out of hours providers following the case of a patient who died after speaking to eight different out of hours doctors over a bank holiday weekend. The DH has acted after coroner Andrew Reid wrote […]
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CfH changes tack on GP Systems of Choice
NHS Connecting for Health has decided to go out to tender for suppliers to take part in GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC). An advertisement will be placed in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) once Treasury approval for the scheme has been received. It will mean on-going contract negotiations with individual GP suppliers […]
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NPfIT systems failing repeatedly
More than 110 major incident failures have been reported by hospitals and GPs over the past four months relating to systems provided by the NHS National Programme for IT. The problems, which have affected dozens of hospitals across England, were serious enough to be logged by NHS managers as ‘major incidents’. The issues were revealed by an […]
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Tolven release open source systems for testing
American software developers, the Tolven Institute, have launched a new website to release new open source software to its members. Open source software is an initiative being piloted across the world where programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code of software, allowing it to evolve. TI has launched three new products, licensed by […]
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NHS IT systems in NWWM slow to recover
Dozens of NHS trusts across the North West and West Midlands remained without access to their main patient management software today, after a Sunday morning failure at a data centre run by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) hosting NHS systems. Some trusts face being without systems until Thursday. The IT disaster, believed to be the most […]
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NE trust faces clinical systems conundrum
A mental health trust board formed from three merged organisations has been advised to stop using a clinical information system supplied under the National Programme for IT on part of its new territory and use another single system across the whole trust. Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust board members received a paper on options […]
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Trusts can keep McKesson PAS systems to 2010
US healthcare IT giant McKesson has signed a deal with NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering the NHS IT programme, to continue to support customers using its legacy TotalCARE and STAR Patient Administration Systems (PAS) until 2010. The deal with CfH’s existing systems supplier programme is the latest indication that the […]
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