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Barts sticks with Millennium

6 June 2013 12:00 AM

Barts Health NHS Trust will stick with Cerner’s Millennium electronic patient record system beyond the end of its national contract in October 2015.

NHS Number to be mandated from 2014

6 June 2013 12:00 AM

Trusts will be contractually obligated to use the NHS number as their primary patient identifier from April 2014.

Info revolution to transform NHS

5 June 2013 3:24 PM

The promised ‘NHS information revolution’ could be the biggest driver for change in the health service, NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar has told the organisation’s conference.

South Acute Programme approved

5 June 2013 2:37 PM

The outline business case for the South Acute Programme has been approved by HM Treasury and the first procurement is due to launch this summer.

Lincolnshire ‘steps back’ from Lorenzo

5 June 2013 12:00 AM

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has decided not to take CSC’s Lorenzo electronic patient record system under a deal between the Department of Health and the company.

Hunt talks up NHS IT projects in US

4 June 2013 4:23 PM

The government’s plan to sequence 100,000 human genomes and link these to electronic health records will be “as significant as the founding of the Internet”, health secretary Jeremy Hunt told a US audience yesterday.

Royal Berks connects with GPs

4 June 2013 12:00 AM

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is sending discharge letters to GPs across eight clinical commissioning groups using PCTI’s Electronic Document Transfer Hub.