Months

Archive: 2016

Years

Archive

7 September 2016

Hunt reveals instant patient record and excellence centres

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled plans to “fast track digital excellence” today, including a further round of digital excellence centres
Read More
6 September 2016

Frantic last-minute lobbying on £100m ‘digital exemplars’

EXCLUSIVE: Frantic behind the scenes lobbying is underway to persuade NHS England to pick a wide range of digital exemplar
Read More
6 September 2016

Calling the FHIR brigade

Philip Scott, chair of HL7 UK, discusses the evolution of the HL7 FHIR standard, some projects in which it is
Read More
6 September 2016

NHS Digital shuffles transformation targets

NHS Digital has accidentally published a whole lot of targets for digital transformation, from patient consent opt-outs to de-identification services.
Read More
6 September 2016

EPRs top of roadmap wish list

A review of local digital roadmaps shows many NHS organisations are prioritising core IT systems for acute trusts, many of
Read More
6 September 2016

Cheshire shares records across 80 organisations

Cheshire has gone live with a shared care record that covers acute, primary, council, community, mental health and cancer data
Read More
5 September 2016

Local digital roadmaps need big investment to work

Local digital roadmap footprints are reliant on significant central funding to make their health IT vision a reality; money they
Read More
2 September 2016

Andy Kinnear: one day, will we all deserve a medal?

The Rio Olympics were inspiring; but Andy Kinnear argues there is plenty that healthcare IT can learn from them, if
Read More
2 September 2016

Healthcare IT industry news in brief

The week’s round-up covers news frontiers for a UK-based patient portal supplier, a big infrastructure contract awarded in Gloucestershire and
Read More
1 September 2016

‘Significant problems’ with data access in public health

Public health services have been denied access to health data vital to doing their job, a report from the Commons
Read More