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6 January 2017

Former NHS IT director jailed for corruption

In return for signing off a million-dollar IT contract his trust didn't need, Peter Lewis was secretly paid more £90,000.
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6 January 2017

Healthcare IT contract news in brief

With a big ICT contract between University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Atos announced yesterday, Digital Health News
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Babylon Health
5 January 2017

Babylon Health to power NHS 111 with ‘AI triage’ bot

An a chatbot app will field less serious health complaints from 1.2 million NHS patients in North Central London as
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5 January 2017

UCLH outsources ICT to Atos in deal worth at least £150m

The big London NHS trust makes another big IT investment, hinting at ambitions to become an "exemplar".
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5 January 2017

Exclusive: Health data breaches on the rise

Since April 2015, UK health providers have reported more than 1300 “data security incidents”, including hundreds of cyber-attacks.
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A Scan4Safety barcode
4 January 2017

NHS barcode project aimed at improving patient safety

The humble barcode has been ubiquitous in retail for decades. Now the NHS is trying to use the technology to
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London Ambulance Service investigation NY IT Outage
3 January 2017

London Ambulance IT down for five hours on NYD

Ambulance dispatchers in the capital were reduced to using pen and paper on one of the busiest nights of the
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3 January 2017

Michael Thick elected chair CCIO Industry Network

IMS Maxims chief clinical information officer has been elected chair of the CCIO Industry Network, a group of clinicians working
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3 January 2017

Interoperability big priority for 2017

We asked 20 UK digital health leaders for their predictions for 2017. One word came through louder than any other.
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3 January 2017

Predictions for the year ahead: UK digital health leaders on 2017

In the second part of a two-part look ahead to 2017, Digital Health News asked some UK digital health leaders
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