DXC Lorenzo healthcare fiasco affecting nearly 15,000 patients. DXC's flagship Electronic Patient Records System is at the centre of a "Serious Incident" in the UK, according to officials, as reported by the Huffington post. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nhs-patients-left-at-risk-after-huge-it-blunder-hits-thousands-of-hospital-discharge-letters-lorenzo-dxc-lister-hospital_uk_5b958882e4b0cf7b00410326
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sour grapes guys. Findajob.com rather than sitting at home looking at this
Not sending 25,000 discharge letters is not totally the fault of DXC , 100 maybe 1,000 letters not going out YES, but 25,000 that's a manual screwup. You can blame the software but PEOPLE are always required to checks and balances and that wasn't done.
Ah, who can forget those spend before you lose it days. Staff hired and left to twiddle thumbs; An overstaffed PMO sending everything out to everyone with no clue as to who was to review whose bit; A workflow that ended in daily management fights; expensive hotel bills to attend meetings that were cancelled on the morning of the meeting; lack of cost and project control and the inevitable ministerial inquiry into what was going wrong with the programme. The CSC "Cowboys" were penalised with a heavy fine; hit stock exchange. Big scandal. Dust settles and then the usual behind the scenes divided-up contract frameworks secretly signed, out of public gaze, for more fun and games.
I loved the NHS contract made a fortune on Overtime due to c-ap planning in CSC and sh-- systems lol :-)
Hospital in Stevenage had failed to send out up to 25,000 “discharge summary” letters to local doctors.
I could see 100 or even 1,000, but 25,000 is negligence on the Hospital staff, more so than a DXC or software bug. It's the users that f---ed up more than DXC
@VsnQMns-1tpu it's me @VsnQMns-1yed again.
Yes Lorenzo has had issues at other NHS trusts before but then so has Cerner and Epic.
I've never worked on Lorenzo so can't comment on how CSC or DXC have managed it but as a UK tax payer I'm not convinced we got our moneys worth from the disastrous NpfIT or since. We all know what it's like: the government don't want to spent the money needed, the Trust don't care they just want off their dying legacy system and the supplier will promise anything if they get the sale and the sales folks get their bonus. The only people who lose out are the poor hospital staff who have to use it and the poor IT staff who have to implement it. Oh and the patients of course
NHS CSC UK..Solihull... fair few TUPEd into CSC were rubbish. The reward for being c-ap.. £100k plus redundancy and extra paid into pensions for them.. parasites...
Anybody remember CSC's far from magnificent success with NHS in the United Kingdom?
From the last comment, it appears that the problems with DXC's Lorenzo Healthcare system are a lot more widespread than most of us realise!
Oh come off it, so many of the implementations of the "new" EPRs in the UK had similar issues with either appointment letters or discharge letters, didn't matter if it was Cerner or Lorenzo, even Epic they all had issues.
Note that HuffPo published this about a month ago, so it's not breaking news today as I thought it might be. Still a very serious fail.
Well , if any deaths are a result of actions or inaction or just plain incompetence brought on by DXC due to this cluster f****. Expect legal action against DXC . You can't hide from this one