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London hospital trials cloud-based patient records

...and Westminster Hospital and Edinburgh Napier University are trialling a cloud-based patient records service that promises to give patients better control over who sees... Read more

21 June, 2011 by Ben Woods

NHS patient records scheme faces £750m cut

...back by more than £750m, it emerged on Wednesday. The Lorenzo electronic patient records system is being deployed in health trusts in the Midlands and... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Nick Heath

£7bn NHS e-records plan faces failure, says watchdog

...projects at varying stages of completion - including building a service to send patient records between GP surgeries, providing a national broadband network for the health... Read more

18 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

NHS patient records system faces the axe

...government is considering scrapping a multi billion-pound project to install a patient records system across the NHS. David Cameron has said the government may... Read more

16 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

NHS patient records: Key trust drops flagship scheme

...Lorenzo in 2008 and have been forced to carry on with existing patient records systems or to implement systems to tide them over while they... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Nick Heath

NHS may revive 'unworkable' Lorenzo system

...is in the process of negotiating a revival of the 'unworkable' Lorenzo patient records system with US corporation CSC, despite the government pledging to 'dismantle... Read more

7 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Heart of England NHS begins massive digitisation plan

...England foundation trust has signed a five-year deal to digitise its patient records. Heart of England NHS Foundation has signed a five-year deal... Read more

18 January, 2012 by Jo Best

CSC cuts back on NHS workforce as talks drag on

...Wednesday dialogue with the NHS over a new deal on the Lorenzo patient records system is "fundamentally going well," but the deal to rescope the... Read more

5 April, 2012 by Larry Dignan

CSC: Talks over NHS Lorenzo system are ongoing

...a filing that its negotiations with the NHS over its stalled Lorenzo patient records system are ongoing, but there is no guarantee it will reach... Read more

4 April, 2012 by Larry Dignan

Microsoft steps in to snaffle Google Health users

...Microsoft HealthVault, as it responds to Google's decision to shut its patient records project Read more

19 July, 2011 by Jay Greene

Privacy watchdog warns NHS to tighten data security

...of several laptops, one of which may have contained 8.63 million patient records. London Health Programmes (LHP), an NHS research organisation, admitted losing the... Read more

1 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

NHS trust drops out of computer records scheme

...November 2009. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see NHS patient records: Key trust drops flagship scheme on silicon.com. Get the latest... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Nick Heath

No clean bill of health for £3bn NHS patient record project

Health trust 'not happy about the level of functionality delivered'... Read more

27 September, 2011 by Nick Heath

Cabinet Office calls for reprieve on NHS IT projects

The Major Projects Authority within the Cabinet Office has urged the Department of Health to give more time to two of the projects in its struggling NHS IT framework Read more

27 September, 2011 by Mark Say

£2.7bn NHS records system is 'unworkable', says PAC

The Public Accounts Committee of MPs has produced a damning report of the NHS IT project, criticising the Department of Health and suppliers CSC and BT Read more

3 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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