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New acronym; new hope?

NHS England has published its guidance on the creation of integrated digital care records for the NHS. Lyn Whitfield has
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SCR to be expanded

Patients’ end-of-life care information, immunisations, and significant past problems and procedures will be added to the NHS Summary Care Record.
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CCIO profile: Dr Hashim Reza

The chief clinical information officer of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust wants an end to keyboards – among many other things.
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NHS England to fund NHS VistA projects

NHS England will spend some of the £260m Technology Fund on exploring the development of an NHS VistA open source
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NHS England introduces IDCR

NHS England has released guidance for trusts to achieve fully integrated digital care records across all care settings by 2018.
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£260m Technology Fund details revealed

Trusts must apply by the end of this month for part of the £260m Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund;
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Wireless access ‘essential’ – Kay

Junior doctors urgently need free access to wireless networks at work, NHS England’s clinical informatics director has said.
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London framework winners announced

The winners of a massive London framework contract for an electronic patient record system, portal and hosting have been announced.
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Trusts meet PACS exit deadline

England’s PACS transition programme was due to hit its first big deadline yesterday, with the successful exit of 84 trusts
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‘Empty plinth’ to fill at EHI Live 2013

EHI Live 2013 has an ‘empty plinth’ in its conference programme; like its famous counterpart in London’s Trafalgar Square, the
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