‘No evidence’ that iSoft director lied
Prosecutors cannot find a “shred of evidence” to link an IT executive to “lies” told to safeguard the position of iSoft and the fortunes of its directors a decade ago, a court has been told.
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Whiston “knew nothing” of iSoft forgery
A former iSoft finance director, accused of misleading investors over a multimillion pound deal, has told his trial he “knew nothing” of a forged contract used to deceive the stock market.
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Graham takes stand in iSoft trial
A former senior executive of iSoft, accused of misleading investors over a £44.3m contract, has denied that failing to agree the deal would have affected the company’s success.
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Eclipse is phased out
Torex, the owner of the Eclipse pharmacy system, has announced that it is to dicontinue the development of the product and cease drug data updates with immediate effect. Eclipse will no longer seek compliance for Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service. It was the second pharmacy system to achieve Release 1 accreditation in 2005, when it […]
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Choice proves tough for some practices in Cambridge
Two primary care trusts have told practices in need of hardware upgrades to their IT systems that they will need to move to the local service provider’s GP solution or live with “suboptimal performance” from existing GP systems. Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire PCTs wrote to practices last week stating that the only option the […]
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Bolton GPs told to use only one IT system
GPs in Bolton are coming under pressure from their PCT to ditch their various practice IT systems and sign up with a single supplier. One GP affected, speaking to E-Health Insider anonymously, said that Bolton PCT had convened a meeting of users of one system and that they were "strongly encouraging them" to move to Vision, from […]
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No show from iSOFT at GP2GP transfer meeting
One of the leading GP system suppliers has been criticised after dropping out of a demonstration of GP2GP record transfer functionality to national GP representatives. iSOFT was due to demonstrate its progress in developing GP2GP functionality alongside GP system suppliers EMIS and InPractice Systems last week at the British Medical Association’s GP committee meeting. However […]
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Data migration hurdles detailed in leaked report
The complex task of transferring data from existing GP clinical systems into systems supplied under NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) contracts is costing twice as much and taking twice as long in the North East and Eastern clusters compared to London, a confidential report leaked to EHI shows. However, the report also found that the […]
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Evercare pilots highlight need for better data
Case management will not get off the ground unless PCTs, acute trusts and GPs improve their data management and quality, a report for the Department of Health has shown. The report by UnitedHealth Europe assessing its nine Evercare pilot sites funded by the DH last year uncovered significant issues with data quality and access to […]
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CliniSys acquires Torex Lab Systems
Diagnostic and specialist clinical software solutions provider, CliniSys, today announced that it has acquired Torex Laboratory Systems (TLS) the company that owns and supports the LabCentre laboratory information management system. CliniSys said TLS was bought from iSOFT which acquired it as part of its merger with Torex’s healthcare business. Part of an Office of Fair […]
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