2 May 2006

Contract negotiations underway for system choice

Contracts have been sent to GP system suppliers due to taking part in the ‘system choice’ initiative for GPs and negotiations are taking place on a
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30 April 2006

iSoft reins back on profit and turnover forecasts

Healthcare IT supplier iSoft has reined back its forecast turnover and profit saying that the company has been unable complete
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28 April 2006

Scottish LMCs vote for abolition of GPASS

GP representatives have voted for the abolition of the Scottish computer system GPASS in a move which puts growing pressure
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28 April 2006

Wales to receive Map of Medicine

Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT programme, has announced that it has secured Map of Medicine, a web-based clinical pathways
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27 April 2006

LogicaCMG to supply armed forces with EHRs by 2010

 LogicaCMG has won the £80m contract to fully supply the armed services with electronic health records by 2010, following a
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27 April 2006

Cardiac surgery outcomes website launches

A public website showing outcomes in adult cardiac surgery is due to be launched today by the Society for Cardiothoracic
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26 April 2006

‘Data fit for sharing’ is goal of new guidance

Guidance to help general practices start a massive clean-up of data in their IT systems has been launched by Connecting for Health,
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26 April 2006

Systems must be good enough to stop short cuts

New systems for the NHS must be so good that staff aren’t tempted to find ‘work arounds’ that jeopardise security,
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25 April 2006

Summary care record delayed and abridged

The content of the summary record uploaded to the spine will be cut back to include just allergy and prescription
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25 April 2006

Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact

NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact,
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