Ade Memoire on portals

Trust IM&T director Adrian Byrne says that ‘to portal or not to portal’ is the question facing many trusts; and
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Unison moves towards pay ballot

Unison has agreed to put an emergency motion calling for a ballot on industrial action to its annual health conference,
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Tech city, Dundalk style

Lis Evenstad visits a smart block of flats in Ireland that may be a prototype living environment for the elderly
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Game on for patient online

There hasn’t been much news about new, online services for patients recently. But Dr Peter Short from the HSCIC tells
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Another view of Code4Health

GP Neil Paul has time for the much-derided Code4Health project; but thinks a lot more will need to be done
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Stevens calls for change on first day

NHS England’s new chief executive, Simon Stevens, has taken up the top job in health service management.
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CCIO event report – The power of collaboration

The first, joint CCIO Leaders Network and Health CIO Network event took place in Darlington last week, at a meeting
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Joe’s view of care.data

Joe McDonald wonders why the powers behind the care.data programme thought they could push it through on an opt-out model,
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Hot stuff

An electronic check list to help GPs identify patients at risk of stroke and get them the right treatment was
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Meaningful use, UK

In the first of a new series for EHI, Mike Jones explains how Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is thinking
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