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Cerner lands contract for British health network
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Aug. 21, 2006
BT Group announced July 31 that it selected Cerner Corp., a Kansas City, Mo., vendor of hospital and ambulatory information systems, to replace GE Healthcare on a team of vendors that is building part of Britain's $11 billion national health network.
The vendor consortium led by BT Group is one of four consortia that have contracts from Britain's National Health Service to automate five regions across Britain. Cerner, which sells clinical and financial systems to hospitals and physicians, also is a member of a consortium led by Fujitsu Inc., which is implementing a health network for England's southern region.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/08/21/bibf0821.htm.