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Going live
1,300 people, 80 exhibitors, four conference streams, the sheep key-rings, the chocolate fountain. EHI reports on E-Health Insider Live ’09.
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The Rotherham slams ‘unhelpful’ SHA
Brian James, chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, has said its strategic health authority threatened it with a “double whammy” of costs to stop it going outside the National Programme for IT in the NHS. In a controversial speech at E-Health Insider Live ’09 about the trust’s decision to choose the US Meditech v6.0 electronic patient […]
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Speakers for E-Health Insider Live ‘09
The speaker list has been unveiled for E-Health Insider Live ’09 – the essential conference and exhibition being held at The ICC, Birmingham, on 9-10 November. Speakers already confirmed for the event include the leaders of the two companies charged with delivering ‘strategic’ electronic patient record systems to the NHS, iSoft and Cerner. Don Trigg, managing […]
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Money, money, money
The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Rotherham picks Meditech for EPR
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract to US clinical software supplier Meditech to provide it with a new electronic patient record system.
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Waiting not an option
The chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust tells Jon Hoeksma why it can’t wait for NPfIT to deliver.
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Foundation trusts tender outside NPfIT
E-Health Insider has learned that just a month after the publication of the Health Informatics Review, a number of NHS foundation trusts have begun to move to non-National Programme for IT in the NHS solutions. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust have seperately placed advertisements for electronic patient record systems […]
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