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Trusts seeks framework agreement for new software system with University College London hospitals foundation trust Royal Free Hampstead trust is leading a procurement for the supply, implementation, hosting and ongoing support of Oracle's finance, procurement and projects system as part of a shared service arrangement. Royal Free Hampstead is seeking the deal, worth up to £20m, with University College London (UCL) and has said that both trusts urgently need to replace their finance, procurement and projects systems by April 2013 or earlier. According to a notice in the Official Journal of the...

US-based firm reveals in filing that it expects contract with Department of Health to be extended until June 2017 Technology company CSC has said that it anticipates its contract with the Department of Health (DoH) to deliver electronic patient records will be extended by one year until June 2017, and that it will receive between £1.5bn and £2bn more as a result. This is despite the firm's poor record in delivering Lorenzo electronic patient records to trusts in the north, Midlands and east of England under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). It also comes after Andrew Lansley, the health...

Trust says more time is needed to ensure the 'smooth implementation' of £15.7m electronic patient record system Oxford University Hospitals trust has said that plans to go live with a new Cerner electronic patient record (EPR) system at three of its hospitals over the weekend have been halted for further "preparatory work" to be done. The trust said that all parties involved in the project, which also includes BT, Cerner and the Southern Programme for IT, have agreed that additional time is necessary before the £15.7m technology can be installed. "The decision to delay has...

Five year contract for image and archiving solution is on behalf of itself and four other trusts East Sussex health care trust has published a tender, worth up to £20m, for an image and archiving system. The trust is procuring the technology on behalf of itself and other trusts including Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Western Sussex Hospitals, Surrey and Sussex healthcare trust and Queen Victoria Hospital. The deal will cover the supply of a radiology information system (Ris), a picture archiving and communication system (Pacs), vendor neutral archiving (Vna), a cardiology imaging system...

It's time for suppliers and NHS IT users to work together, and we have a plan to make it happen The use of IT has become second nature to most of us in our daily life. We expect to have the information we need, wherever and whenever we need it. And we expect the professionals that we deal with to have the information they need too. If our shoes can now communicate with our MP3 player when we run – telling us how far we have run, how many calories we have burned then store that information on the web – then why, in the 21st century, can we still not perform simple tasks online in interacting...

Join us from 10:30am for live coverage of our seminar about how healthcare providers can develop an effective social media strategy On Guardian Healthcare Network, we've recognised the increasing role that social media is playing in NHS organisations and third sector bodies across the country, including the ways trusts are using Twitter , how viral videos can spread health messages and how the chief executive of a large strategic health authority used Twitter to get her message across . In each case we've seen how social media can be a cost-effective means of both listening to and engaging...

Single community care record will give staff latest information and cut unnecessary administration, says care trust Torbay care trust is to create a single community care record (SCCR) which will provide staff with office-based and remote offline access to secure patient records and client care details. The trust, which provides health and social care services in Torbay and southern Devon, said the SCCR will be accessible to community-based staff, such as district nurses, social workers, therapists and learning disabilities care staff, via tablets, PCs or smartphones. Staff time, which is currently...