Ireland races to implement health IT

Ireland has created an Individual Health Identifier for all patients and implemented an e-referral system in half of all its
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Dating app encourages organ donation

Dating app Tinder has partnered with NHS Blood and Transplant to raise awareness about organ donations.
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Royal Berkshire sticks with Millennium

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is sticking with Cerner as its core electronic patient record system and has signed
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Healthcare IT news in brief

This week’s industry round-up includes the news that NHS Shared Business Services has delivered a new framework and Skyscape has
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Care plans shared with InterSystems

Care plan sharing scheme Coordinate My Care has gone live with InterSystems’ HealthShare.
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RC Psych backs cSUS

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the first to back the Clinical Software Usability Survey, launched by Digital Health and
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GPs get read and write records access

Clinical staff at Richmond’s new extended appointment hubs are able to read and write into patient records held in both
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Chief tech officer to replace Kelsey

NHS England will recruit a new “chief information and technology officer” to replace Tim Kelsey.
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Dorset plans £20m shared record scheme

Dorset is planning a shared care record scheme worth up to £20 million.
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Patient opt-outs actioned by January

Around 700,000 patients who objected to having their identifiable data shared with third parties will have their wishes recognised by
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