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Healthcare IT appointments in brief

11 March 2016 12:34 AM

This month’s round-up covers new chief information officer appointments Lewisham and Greenwich, Sandwell and West Birmingham and Morecambe Bay NHS trusts.

£55m to increase e-Referral uptake

10 March 2016 6:03 AM

NHS England has set aside £55 million to reward GPs and hospitals to increase the uptake of electronic referrals to 100% by 2018.

Sheffield links £12m shortfall to Lorenzo implementation

10 March 2016 3:02 AM

Challenges with booking and reporting patient activity following the implementation of Lorenzo at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are contributing to major activity under-performance, which has cost the trust £12 million to date.

Berkshire to share patient records with Graphnet

9 March 2016 12:51 AM

Seventeen health and social care organisations across Berkshire will share the care records of 855,000 patients using CareCentric software from Graphnet.

Ipswich battles winter pressures with BI tool

9 March 2016 12:48 AM

A winter pressures business intelligence tool developed at Ipswich Hospital with Medeanalytics is providing an early warning system for capacity shortfalls and enabling the trust to develop alternative provision.

Fujitsu case still going – and could last another two years

9 March 2016 12:00 AM

The Department of Health’s dispute with Fujitsu over the company’s exit from the National Programme for IT in 2008 was not resolved in 2014, is still ongoing, and could last another two years, according to a news agency.