one step closer to getting paid

To tick of the milestone Isoft need 4 NHS trusts early adopters to go live. This will enable CSC to get paid which means Isoft get paid. This will put some well needed cash in the bank to enable the company to stop resorting to Ya and high rates of interst with the banking sydnicate.

We now have three early adopters and looks like the last (Penine) will go live in Feb (hopefully earlier). DYOR.


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Birmingham Womens to switch on Lorenzo
30 Oct 2010

Birmingham Womens is set to become the third early adopter go live with the Lorenzo 1.9 care records service hospital information system. The trust took a decision on Friday to proceed with an initial go live by Monday.

The move will see the specialised hospital become the third NHS trust to go live with Lorenzo. Birmingham Womens follows in the footsteps of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust and Bury PCT.

The decision to go live was confirmed by Steve Peak, the chief executive for Birmingham Womens Steve Peak, in an interview with ComputerWorld UK.

The decision was taken just days after the most senior clinician involved in the Lorenzo project at Morecambe Bay said the software was unstable and not ready for deployment.

CSC needs to implement Lorenzo at four different types of NHS trusts, representing a cross-section of the health service, to trigger a key contract milestone, that will trigger payments to it and sub-contractor iSoft. The fourth trust is Penine Partnership a mental health.

EHI understands that Penine, which recently delayed go live plans and had begun looking at alternatives, is now intending to go live with Lorenzo in February 2011.

Achieving the milestone is an essential step to enabling CSC to conclude a contract renegotiation with the Department of Health. Negotiations continue on how the supplier will deliver 700m in savings, already announced by the DH, in return for a simplified modular version of Lorenzo, delivered to a smaller number of NHS trusts.

Christine Connelly, CIO at the Department of Health, said in September that successful deployment of Lorenzo 1.9 at Birmingham Womens, and at other early adopter sites, was an essential milestone for CSC.