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Joe’s view of SUSing out IT systems

Joe McDonald unveils the results of the ‘great big mental health system user survey; and says there is plenty for
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HSCIC review finds data release ‘lapses’

A Health and Social Care Information Centre review has uncovered “lapses” in how its predecessor organisation shared patient data, and
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NHS Arden rolls out care homes dashboard

NHS Arden Commissioning Support Unit has created a care quality dashboard for nursing homes which is due to be rolled
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Interoperability important for tech fund

NHS England’s head of enterprise architecture has underlined the importance of interoperability to trusts putting together ‘tech fund 2’ bids.
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Health CIO profile: James Thomas

The ICT director at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust started his career in maps but now makes bit
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Avon calling

In the first of EHI’s series on information sharing across healthcare communities, Lis Evenstad visits Bristol to see its Connecting
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PACS exits take longer than expected

Too many trusts exiting their national PACS/RIS systems contracts are leaving “time-critical tasks” to the end of their exit plans,
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£20m on open source in ‘tech fund 2’

NHS England has a £20m target for open source systems in the second round of its technology fund, although the
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HSCIC to create data security programme

The Health and Social Care Information Centre will establish a data security programme across health and social care.
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