NHS IT: moving away from 'best of breed'?

A number of recent NHS IT contract awards could signal a trend away from the use of ‘best of breed’ clinical and patient record systems by UK hospitals and towards single supplier, ‘Enterprise’ electronic patient record (EPR) systems. In our latest PublicSectorViews research note, Tola Sargeant looks at three contracts – Meditech’s at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust; Cerner’s at West Suffolk and Advanced Computer Software’s at the mental health trust Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – and considers the implications for the market of a move away from ‘best of breed’ systems.

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Posted by Tola Sargeant at '12:41' - Tagged: contract   software   health