CfH
RSS CfHiSoft reveals massive loss
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) issued a statement on Friday morning in which it noted iSoft's financial results had been published. And it confirms that it will make the Lorenzo product available through 2008, which is... [25 Aug 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Talk to the user
Comment The current troubles of the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) IT project are a prime example - much of the discontent is because key groups of users do not feel they have been sufficiently involved in the process, nurses... [25 Aug 2006]
RFID blood-tracking trial planned
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) is looking to work with one or more trusts in England to pilot a national IT specification for blood tracking. As the specification was developed in a large teaching hospital,... [22 Aug 2006]
"No believable plan" for key NHS IT software
News One of the major concerns raised by Accenture and CSC in the report is that iSoft is building a generic solution that will require time-consuming and costly customisation to meet the needs of the Connecting for Health... [21 Aug 2006]
Leader: The good of IT in healthcare
Leader But ironically at a Northern Ireland hospital trust outside the remit of the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) programme, silicon.com has seen just how beneficial IT can be to doctors and patients. Of course execution is... [17 Aug 2006]
Digital X-ray plan hits halfway in London and south
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) said 50 per cent of trusts - 33 - now have the Picture Archiving and Communications System (Pacs) deployed. CfH and its suppliers have now rolled out 22 Pacs in the... [09 Aug 2006]
Editor's Blog: Rage against mobiles on planes
Comment Elsewhere, in the realm of the slightly more important, Sunday saw a story from the Observer criticising the Connecting for Health (CfH) scheme - the NHS' big tech upgrade. It may well be August, the height of silly... [08 Aug 2006]
NHS "better off" without IT upgrade
News The report comes to light at a bad time for the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) scheme, which last week saw massive systems failures in 80 hospitals.silicon.com Public Sector The Observer claims the document was written... [07 Aug 2006]
NHS data centre repairs "almost complete"
News In a statement today, NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) said: "We can report the recovery of computer services in the North West and West Midlands of England is now largely complete. Earlier this week the NHS... [02 Aug 2006]
Update: Crash hits 80 NHS trusts
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for health service IT, said some priority services were restored last night, and "a number" of the 80 affected trusts and primary care trusts across the region have... [01 Aug 2006]
Is online home help the answer to NHS cash crisis?
News Dr Mike Bainbridge, a clinical architect for the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) programme, said: "Medicine in the 21st century is not quite there yet. CfH's Bainbridge also said privacy is a major... [22 Jun 2006]
NHS bans World Cup video streams
News Users of NHS computers will find that access to video and audio streaming of the World Cup, from broadcasters such as the BBC and TalkSport, will not be available, NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) said. [19 Jun 2006]
NHS IT spending will reach £12.4bn
News This includes £6.2bn for the main fixed-price IT contracts, £382m for new projects, £239m on additional services and £1.9bn on other expenditure by NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) on centrally managed projects and services. [16 Jun 2006]
GPs get £1 a patient incentive to use NHS IT
News The Choose and Book system is part of the £6.2bn Connecting for Health (CfH) project to overhaul and modernise NHS IT systems - and it has had its critics. But NHS CfH claims momentum is continuing to... [13 Jun 2006]
NHS IT prescription glitch fixed
News NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) said it and supplier Accenture were alerted to "an issue" last Thursday at a GP practice that was using an NHS CfH GP IT system. NHS CfH said in a... [12 Jun 2006]
