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Tracking down kidney failure: Western Sussex develops AKI alerts

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been developing acute kidney injury alerts for Patientrack, and is now planning a
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Special report: Information and record sharing across healthcare communities

Fiona Barr hears about the growing sophistication of information and record sharing models, and about some of the different systems
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GS1 demonstrator sites announced

Six NHS hospital trusts have been named as demonstrator sites for the use of GS1 standards and will share £12
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Big data in healthcare – hype or hope?

Big data is transforming many industries. But how is it relevant in healthcare? This white paper from The Learning Clinic
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New code for open source EHR released

IMS Maxims has released the latest version of its open source electronic patient record, including all of the enhancements made
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Joe’s view: Can the NHS bear to be special?

Joe McDonald is worried that “NHS special” technology services are coming at too high a development and financial cost to
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CQC cites EPR concerns at Walsall

England's chief inspector of hospitals has recommended Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust be placed into special measures, highlighting issues with its
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Christie trials ‘Tinder’ for locum docs

The Christie Hospital in Manchester is piloting a system for booking locum doctors that may do for agency work what
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South West commissioners use MI View

The regional NHS Directory of Services team hosted by NHS Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group, has created sophisticated operational intelligence tools
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£1B question answered “shortly”: Freeman

EXCLUSIVE: Details of how the government will invest more than £1 billion on digitising the NHS over the next five
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