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EHI Intelligence forecasts IT growth

NHS spending on IT will increase over the next five years in response to pressures on the health service, and
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Rotherham asks Monitor to back off

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is to ask Monitor to relax its oversight of its Meditech v6.0 electronic patient record
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Four South trusts tender for ePMA

Four southern acute trusts have tendered for an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system worth £5m-£7m, backed by central funding.
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US and UK take forward health IT MoU

The US and UK are working together on harmonising quality indicators, releasing and using health data, the Blue Button initiative,
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HSCIC to audit data releases by 2 April

The Health and Social Care Information Centre will take four weeks to audit the data releases of its predecessor, the
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GP IT funding split evenly nationwide

GP IT funding will be paid to clinical commissioning groups on a per-head-of-population basis under new plans revealed by NHS
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Taunton picks IMS Maxims

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has picked IMS Maxims as preferred bidder to supply its electronic patient record system.
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Hunt optimistic about NHS and technology

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is optimistic about the future of the NHS because of the “technology revolution” that is about
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Walsall first combined trust for Lorenzo

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust has become the third trust to go-live with Lorenzo this year, and the first acute and
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Treasury releases tech fund money

The Treasury has approved funding for the second tranche of projects in the first round of the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer
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