BT has signed a £108m contract with service provider
Perot Systems to help it deliver a patient-records system and
application to the NHS.
Perot will provide project management, implementation and
configuration services for the NHS national programme for IT.
BT won a £996m,10-year contract in 2003 to be the local service
provider for the electronic patient records system for London.
Healthcare software technology provider IDX Systems is supplying
the application for the contract. In addition to London, NPfIT
awarded four other regional contracts.
Perot has been a subcontractor on the deal since BT entered its
bid, so the agreement represents a cementing of the relationship,
according to Perot spokesman Charlie Richards.
Although the Plano, Texas, company signed a six-and-a-half-year
contract with BT, fully implementing the patient records system is
being thought of as a seven-to-10-year project, Richards said.
Scarlet Pruitt writes for IDG News Service