NHS Choices £80m contract award imminent

The Department of Health is this week expected to announce the winner of the three-year, £80m contract to run NHS
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Intel gets approval for telecare device

Intel has received market clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a new personal telehealth system.
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NHS Informatics Review says trusts need ‘interim’ systems

NHS trusts are to get support, and in some cases may get national funding, to select and install “interim” systems
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CSC markets Alert to the NHS

Computer Sciences Corporation has stepped up its marketing of a Portuguese electronic patient record (EPR) system called Alert to NHS
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Europe aims for borderless electronic health records

The European Commission has launched two major e-health initiatives aimed at achieving interoperable e-health systems across Europe
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CRS leads to cancer care delays at Barts

The implementation of a new NHS Care Records System has led to patients requiring urgent cancer care not being seen
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CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’

The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon
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Nicholson says C+B use not based on payments

NHS chief executive David Nicholson last night said that use of Choose and Book remains disappointingly low but has become
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BT in talks to take over Cerner trusts in south

BT has confirmed it is in talks to take over responsibility for trusts in the south with Cerner Millennium
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Winchester has four-day Millennium failure

Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, has in the past week suffered a four day problem with its Cerner Millennium
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