10 August 2016

Joe’s view: of emailing patients

The NHS must be the last organisation on the planet that doesn’t want your email address. Time that changed, argues
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5 August 2016

Healthcare IT news in brief

This week’s round-up includes a digital makeover at HSCIC, text messages for keeping off the pounds and a new system
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4 August 2016

Care.data: gone but not forgotten

Care.data has been officially dead for more than a month, but its legacy is far from buried. Ben Heather takes
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4 August 2016

Ewan Davis: on new leaders and hard and soft power

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is back and the NHS in England has a set of new IT leaders. So far
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2 August 2016

Digital Health profile: Cindy Fedell

Kim Thomas talks to the executive director of informatics and IT at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; a native of
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1 August 2016

Andy Kinnear: never too old for school

Andy Kinnear came away from this year’s annual Health CIO Summer School inspired – and signed up to a new
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29 July 2016

Healthcare IT industry news in brief

In this week’s round-up we take a look at a UK primary care system supplier branching out in the Middle
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28 July 2016

Davey Winder: Medics texting patient data? It has to stop

The NHS needs secure applications for exchanging sensitive healthcare information. It doesn’t need doctors and nurses sending texts and pictures
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26 July 2016

Another view: of why GP federations need a CCIO

Our long-standing GP columnist supports a number of GP federations; and their projects always involve IT and IG. That means
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25 July 2016

Daniel Ray: on direct data flows

The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s new director of data science says it’s time to end central returns; data
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