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Joe’s view: of openness

Joe undertakes a McDonald’s tour of organisational openness, via Birkenau, the Jimmy Savile scandal, and NPfIT.
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Consultant creates online patient tool

A consultant at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases has created an online patient assessment tool that could be
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BSUH aims for ‘paper-lite’ with Alert

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is planning a three-year roll out of its electronic patient record system starting
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Job losses likely at NHS Direct

NHS Direct staff are preparing for significant job losses and numerous call centre closures as the service’s 0845 contract comes
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War and peace, but mostly peace

The IT director and the chief clinical information officer of a London trust have explained how they have worked to
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NHS CB builds customer service platform

The NHS Commissioning Board is working on a new ‘customer service platform’ to take over from NHS Choices and NHS
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Small is beautiful

Everybody loved SMEs at EHI Live 2012; although a few would like to feel the love as cold, hard cash.
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GE Healthcare launches VNA

A new vendor neutral archive that adopts a four-level level model for medical information management was launched at EHI Live
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New group to be customer for national IT

Tim Kelsey is set to chair a new informatics services commissioning group that will become an “intelligent customer” for national
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Split big contracts to save: Maxwell

Deputy government chief information officer Liam Maxwell told EHI Live 2012 that "disaggregating big, black box contracts" can save millions
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