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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3 March 2016

Leadership summit: full steam ahead?

The first Digital Health Leadership Summit heard the government wants to create the ‘railroad’ over which local IT services can
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3 March 2016

‘Stars are aligned’ for health IT – Freeman

Health ministers are “completely behind” the digitisation of health and social care because “it is urgent for personal care, it
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3 March 2016

Joe’s view of lava lamps (and the Great North Care Record)

Joe McDonald says the NHS is like a lava lamp: constantly changing in response to political heat. But healthcare economies
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25 February 2016

Cambridge: big bang reality

Cambridge University Hospitals went live with Epic as part of a £200 million eHospital programme in October 2014. Digital Health
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19 February 2016

Salford best practice site visit: Rock stars, roadies and sexy data

NHS IT leaders went to Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust to learn from its implementation of electronic patient records and
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16 February 2016

Legal view: sharing is daring?

Christopher Air and Eleanor Tunnicliffe from DAC Beachcroft consider the vexed issue of information sharing between NHS organisations from the
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9 February 2016

Another view: of funding GP workload

A review of the funding formula for GPs may be on the way. Neil Paul has been pulling together data
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5 February 2016

Healthcare IT appointments in brief

This month's round up includes changes at King's and Birmigham, a promotion at the HSCIC, and a new vice-president for
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