The U.K.'s Department of Health has awarded five multivendor PACS contracts as part of a $10.6 billion healthcare information technology program.
According to U.K. Health Minister John Hutton, PACS technology will begin to be rolled out starting this summer through local service providers Fujitsu, British Telecommunications (BT), Accenture, and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in five clusters: the Southern Cluster; the London Cluster; the East and East Midlands Cluster; the North East Cluster; and the North West and West Midlands Cluster.
The right to deploy PACS technology was awarded to Fujitsu with GE Healthcare for the Southern Cluster; BT with Philips Medical Systems -- subject to contract -- for the London Cluster; Accenture with GE -- subject to contract -- for the East and East Midlands Cluster; Accenture with GE -- subject to contract -- for the North East Cluster; and CSC with Eastman Kodak Health Imaging and ComMedica for the North West and West Midlands Cluster.
Coverage will be completed in three years, according to the National Health Service (NHS). Currently, only 25 Acute Trusts in the U.K. have PACS, according to the NHS.
El Segundo, CA-based CSC said the North West and West Midlands Cluster contract is a 10-year, $347.5 million deal. It said it estimates the value of its share of the award to be approximately $191.5 million.
Kodak will provide the CR systems, RIS, and archiving systems, and ComMedica will provide PACS software, CSC said.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersMay 14, 2004
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