Acute

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31 August 2006

Accenture winds down acute hospital trust work

Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North-east and East of England, is winding down
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29 August 2006

Road to repair

On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, US correspondent Neil Versel reports from Louisiana on the use of EHRs in rebuilding
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29 August 2006

Press reports question future roles of iSoft and Accenture

Weekend press reports raised further questions over the future shape of the NHS National Programme for IT and the long
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25 August 2006

CSC takes charge of seven ‘out of cluster’ trusts

Computer Sciences Corporation, the local service provider for the North-west and West Midlands is to take over responsibility for the
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17 August 2006

IMS signs contract with BT for London trust

IMS MAXIMS Plc today announced that it had signed a three year contract with London local service provider, BT, to supply
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17 August 2006

CfH seeks acute trust for blood barcoding pilot

NHS Connecting for Health and the National Patient Safety Agency have announced they are looking for an acute trust to
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16 August 2006

Trusts urged to move faster with e-prescribing

Trusts are being urged to move forward faster with e-prescribing and the use of robotics to automate hospital pharmacies by
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8 August 2006

PACS passes halfway stage in London and South

The programme to deploy Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) in London and the South of England has passed the
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7 August 2006

E-mail reveals outage disrupted patient care

One week on from the computer failure that left 80 trusts in the North-west and West Midlands without access to
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4 August 2006

NHS Fife begins electronic discharge summary project

Capula Healthcare has announced that it has started a pilot project with the NHS Fife operational division to electronically record
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