__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Tuesday 14 November 2006 19:04 \__
> The players under the microscope .. Accenture, Microsoft, iSoft
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> http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2058194,00.asp
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> "Microsoft .. is working particularly closely with iSOFT on the
> development of Lorenzo, the core clinical solution .. being built on
> Microsoft's .Net web services technology"
>
> http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=700
FWIW:
NHS Scotland pools budget for Microsoft savings
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| NHS National Services Scotland forecasts it will save up to £8m over
| three years from a new procurement deal with Microsoft
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/30/scottish_nhs_microsoft_procurement_deal/
Microsoft in the NHS
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| Microsoft is one of the key technology firms in the £6.2 billion NHS
| IT programme. It is working particularly closely with iSOFT ...
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http://www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/index.cfm?ID=69
Accenture escapes £1bn penalty for NHS walk-out
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| Accenture, the IT and consultancy firm has avoided huge penalty fees for
| withdrawing from the UK National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/29/accenture_nhs_penalty/
Accenture: NHS failure is 'track record for success'
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| After months of negotiations, Accenture handed contracts worth £2bn over
| to rival Computer Sciences Corporation after getting paid just £110m
| for spending a third of the allotted 10 years on the job. Its hand had
| been forced by losses of $450m it was set to make on the deal this
| year.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/accenture_failure_success/
CfH refutes computer failure claims
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| "Very often they are not major incidents as such, but could be caused when
| a patient administration system is running slow or there may be problems
| with the local network. The severity level is attributed by the user and
| this is subsequently very often down graded or amended."
|
| Many of the incidents that have been reported by CfH include failure of
| the systems used by surgeons to see X-ray pictures on a computer screen
| in wards and operating theatres. On some occasions the system is believed
| to have crashed during an operation, forcing surgeons to suspend the
| procedure while a hard copy of the X-ray is found.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/19/cfh_defends_itself/
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