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9 December 2016

Healthcare IT news in brief

£10 million for tech support self-care Research into using tech to manage chronic disease remotely has received a funding boost.
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8 December 2016

Gloucestershire goes live with TrakCare

Another southern trust has gone live with the TrakCare electronic patient record, after more than a year of delays.
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7 December 2016

Laura’s digital disruptors: virtual realit-knee

Digital Health News reporter Laura Stevens goes to Bournemouth to try her hand at (virtual reality) surgery. She learns she
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7 December 2016

Another IT crash in the north

A component failure at a hospital has led to delayed appointments, the latest in a spate of IT crashes at
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6 December 2016

NHS Digital sees off patient privacy challenge

NHS Digital has seen off a challenge to the way its anonymises millions of patients’ data, with a verdict finding
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6 December 2016

New clinical IT framework launched

The northern trust has developed a new clinical IT framework that it hopes will compete nationally in what is already
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5 December 2016

Aggressive ransomware blamed for NHS cyber-attack

The Globe2 ransomware virus has been singled out as the culprit in the cyber-attack that took down a northern NHS
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5 December 2016

Site visit: ONC course at Clatterbridge

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre went live with a Meditech EPR in May, becoming the first trust to implement the oncology module.
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5 December 2016

Digital roadmaps weak on “how” – review

At least a quarter of the country’s local digital roadmaps are weak on explaining how they will deliver on a
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5 December 2016

Discount Apple Watch offered for health data

A private insurer is offering UK customers super cheap Apple Watches with its policies but there's a catch (or two).
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