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Fujitsu’s £896m NHS IT contract to be terminated

NHS Connecting for Health is to terminate the £896m contract with Fujitsu to upgrade NHS IT systems across the South
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Worthing says Cerner’s functionality ‘inferior’

Cerner Millennium care records system is still suffering from ‘inferior functionality’, leading to ‘significant level of discontent among clinicians’.
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First Dutch hospital connects to Switchpoint

St Jansdal hospital in Harderwijk, the Netherlands, has become the country’s first hospital able to retrieve patient medication information via
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Seetec withdraws from GPSoC

Seetec has announced it is to withdraw from the GP Systems of Choice programme, effective from 30 November, and quit
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EC to hold e-health management workshop

The European Commission is holding an e-health management workshop on 9 June in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop will review IT
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Airedale hospital to pilot RFID from Siemens

Airedale NHS Trust will be piloting new Radio Frequency Identification technology from Siemens Healthcare to track 100 intravenous pumps across
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Scotland provides long-term funding for IT support staff

Scotland has announced long-term funding for IM&T facilitators to work with GPs, pharmacists and dentists. The Scottish government has agreed
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