2 November 2017

NHS England CIO says service needs ‘at least’ another £4.2 billion for IT

NHS England’s CIO Will Smart has said the NHS needs at least another £4.2 billion of IT investment to finish
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30 October 2017

Imprivata boss says its acquisition of Caradigm will benefit NHS

Imprivata, the healthcare IT security and access management company has acquired identity management firm Caradigm from GE Health for an
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18 October 2017

Orion’s Colin Henderson appointed UK health boss for DXC

Colin Henderson, former boss of Orion Health UK, has been confirmed as DXC’s new general manager for the company’s Healthcare
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18 October 2017

MPs told that a further 162,000 medical documents undelivered

MPs investigating the biggest ever loss of NHS medical correspondence have been told that 162,000 extra documents went missing, beyond
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18 October 2017

NHS Scotland awards Cambio CDS contract

NHS Scotland has selected Sweden’s Cambio Healthcare Systems to supply a national clinical decision support system.
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12 October 2017

17 NHS trusts to use OpenEHR for 100,000 Genomes Project

A group of 17 leading NHS trusts in and around London have begun making use of OpenEHR to capture and
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5 October 2017

Nottingham to review digital care record due to patient safety concerns

Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust is to urgently review its £14m digital records system roll-out after consultants wrote to the
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28 September 2017

Cerner “lowered prices, rather a lot,” to get into GDE “game”

One of the most experienced and highly regarded NHS CIOs has said Cerner significantly dropped its prices to win new
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25 September 2017

Plymouth to be NHS first on open e-prescribing

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first NHS trust to begin implementation of an open source, open standards-based electronic
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21 September 2017

Gartner says NHS over-reliant on closed systems

Technology analysis firm Gartner expresses concerns over the NHS IT market, saying it is too reliant on closed proprietary systems.
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