Alphabet soup:

Decode the following acronyms from the jargon-heavy world of the NHS and healthcare IT:

• 1. ASSIST
  Association for Informatics Professionals in Health and Social Care
• 2. CQC
  Care Quality Commission
• 3. CQUIN
  Commissioning for Quality and Innovation Payment Framework
• 4. HSMR
  Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio
• 5. SHMI
  Summary Hospital-Level Mortality Indicator
• 6. PRIMIS
  Primary Care Information Service
• 7. XDS
  Cross-enterprise Document Sharing
• 8. XDS-I
  Cross-enterprise Document Sharing for Images

Picture question:

• 9. Which of these politicians is the odd one out?
• A. Andrew Lansley,
• B. Stephen O’Brien,
• C. Norman Lamb,
• D. Andy Burnham.

Hello, goodbye:

Who – and what – made their entrances in 2010?

• 10. A strange political hybrid that some were quick to ConDem.
  The coalition government
• 11. A new tablet – but not one you swallow.
  The Apple iPad

Who – or what – made their exits?

• 12. This boss called it a day Down Under.
  ISoft executive chairman and chief executive Gary Cohen
• 13. This company came to the end of its mission to boldly go into those parts of the NHS where no Office software had gone before.
  Microsoft, which lost its Enterprise-wide Agreement with the NHS.

And who – or what – is saying a lingering goodbye?

• 14. Two tiers of NHS management given only a few months to live by their doctors.
  Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts,
• 15. A hardy perennial of EHI’s news coverage that got the ministerial chop on 9 September; but kept some of its work and key contracts.

  The National Programme for IT in the NHS.

• 16. The victor of the browser wars that may finally be navigating towards retirement.
  Internet Explorer 6.

Picture question:

• 17. Which of these trusts is the odd one out?
• A. St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust,
• B. University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust,
• C. Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust,
• D. Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Coalition capers

• 18. Which white paper, according to health secretary Andrew Lansley, is going to “deliver the efficiency and improvement in quality that is required to make the NHS a truly world class service.”

  Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS.

• 19. What, according to DH director general of informatics Christine Connelly, will create “very new kinds of structures and organisations, and a new approach to information is needed to build bridges to connect the different parts."
  The Information Revolution.
• 20. Which health watchdog got ‘Pickled’ by the incoming coalition government?
  The Audit Commission.
• 21. Which record was turned on, off, on?
  The NHS Summary Care Record.

Who said:

In the EHI newsletter’s ‘quote of the week’.

• 22. “You’ll be able to check your health records online in the same way you do your bank account.”
  Conservative leader David Cameron
• 23. “This is not political. There are computer systems that work and ones that don’t. I prefer the former.”
  Conservative MP and PAC member Richard Bacon
• 24. “Any woollier and it would be a sheep.”
  GP Neil Bhatia
• 25. “None of us understood a word of it.”
  Former health minister Tom Sackville

Picture question:

• 26. Which of these faces is the odd one out?

  D.

Do you know your vendors?

• 27. Which company proves that Medway isn’t just a river in Kent?
  System C
• 28. Do ewe know which company has an image sharing site called Flockr?

  EMIS

• 29. Which vendor’s Ensemble is technical rather than musical?
  InterSystems
• 30. Which company has risen from The Phoenix Partnership?
  TPP