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10 March 2016

£55m to increase e-Referral uptake

NHS England has set aside £55 million to reward GPs and hospitals to increase the uptake of electronic referrals to
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10 March 2016

Sheffield links £12m shortfall to Lorenzo implementation

Challenges with booking and reporting patient activity following the implementation of Lorenzo at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are contributing to major
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9 March 2016

Special report: Interoperability

Over the past year, there has been an explosion of frameworks, declarations and charters supporting interoperability. But have they set
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9 March 2016

Wellcome Trust issues new data sharing report

The Wellcome Trust has returned to the debate about the use of health data with a report arguing that researchers
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9 March 2016

Berkshire to share patient records with Graphnet

Seventeen health and social care organisations across Berkshire will share the care records of 855,000 patients using CareCentric software from
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9 March 2016

Ipswich battles winter pressures with BI tool

A winter pressures business intelligence tool developed at Ipswich Hospital with Medeanalytics is providing an early warning system for capacity
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9 March 2016

Fujitsu case still going – and could last another two years

The Department of Health’s dispute with Fujitsu over the company’s exit from the National Programme for IT in 2008 was
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8 March 2016

Letter from HIMSS16

Dr Shaun O’Hanlon, the chief medical officer of Emis Group, was in Las Vegas last week for HIMSS16. In this
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8 March 2016

Another view: of IT check-ups

GP Neil Paul has been carrying out IT health-checks for local practices; and has discovered that they need help and
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8 March 2016

Enter the CCG: on IG, security, and the fear of being shot

Dr John Lockley chaired a conference on the vexed and difficult questions of information governance and cyber-security; and found that
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