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28 September 2006

CSC wins £1.9bn contract for North-east and Eastern

Computer Sciences Corporation has been awarded a nine-year contract to take over responsibility for Accenture’s North-east and Eastern regions of
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28 September 2006

Accenture pulls out of national programme

Accenture has departed from the NHS National Programme for IT, walking away from two contracts worth a total of more than £2bn.  The
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26 September 2006

Fewer flights

Identifying "frequent flyers" - patients at high risk of emergency admission - will soon be possible thanks to a new
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25 September 2006

Cheshire tests telehealth vital signs monitor

Two Cheshire care agencies have teamed up with a housing trust to pilot the Genesis machine, a new telehealth product
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12 September 2006

Delay to Scottish primary care software report

A much-anticipated report on the future of primary care IT systems in Scotland has been delayed, and will undergo further work before
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8 September 2006

CSC say they want to take over from Accenture

CSC today confirmed they would compete to take over from Accenture, should the company withdraw from its contracts to the
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6 September 2006

South Worcestershire signs for Care Enhance Call Centre

South Worcestershire Primary Care Trust has selected an advanced call centre triage system for its GP out-of-hours (OOH) service which it
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31 August 2006

Irish Pharmaceutical Union chooses First DataBank

Drug data experts First DataBank Europe have signed a new partnership with the Irish Pharmaceutical Union to provide its members
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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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