3 February 2016

Enter the CCG: on the snail at the backdoor

John Lockley worries that the NHS is going down the line of centralised, expensive ‘solutions’ to cybercrime, when what it
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28 January 2016

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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26 January 2016

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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25 January 2016

Interview: George Freeman

The life sciences minister’s vision is that “every patient is a research patient”. For that to happen, he tells Digital
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22 January 2016

Healthcare IT industry news in brief

This week's round up of industry news includes updates on big RFID tracking and information sharing projects, and trading updates
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20 January 2016

Guest column: Bitcoin technology and the NHS

Gareth Baxendale, the head of technology for the NIHR Clinical Research Network, asks: can Bitcoin’s block chain technology revolutionise electronic
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18 January 2016

Hull of a job: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals’ EPR deployment, six months on

Martyn Smith, the director of IT and innovation at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, and his colleague Neil
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15 January 2016

Healthcare IT news in brief

This week’s round up of healthcare IT industry developments includes new launches and a competiton for junior doctors to win
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14 January 2016

Good data: with Ben Goldacre

Doctor and science writer Ben Goldacre would like a fund to support the development of NHS data tools and argues
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12 January 2016

Another view: of federation and the IT to make it work

GP Neil Paul opens 2016 by considering some of the challenges of federation and finding the IT to support practices
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