Members flock to Ireland’s CCIO council

Ireland’s Council of Clinical Information Officers has 145 members from 35 disciplines and is pushing to formalise the role across
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Publishing BI data improves hospital performance

Publishing regular comparative performance data has driven significant clinical operational and financial improvements at a Gateshead trust, its chief clinical
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HSCN connections available this summer

NHS and social care organisations should be able to tender for a new Health and Social Care Network connection by
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Healthcare IT news in brief

This week’s industry round-up includes a number of contract announcements from Hitachi, ANS and 6PM.
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33,000 patients go with the Flo

A telehealth text messaging system developed in Stoke has been adopted by more than 70 health and social care services
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SCR in outpatients and police rooms

Access to NHS Summary Care Records is being extended to scheduled care settings and dedicated medical rooms in police stations.
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E-discharge uptake revealed by DMI

EXCLUSIVE: Around two thirds of NHS trusts are sharing discharge summaries electronically with GPs and one fifth are prescribing electronically,
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DigitalHealth.London to work with SMEs

A programme launched in London today aims to bring together clinicians with healthcare providers, entrepreneurs and industry to speed up
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Details of £1.8b tech funding revealed

NHS organisations will have access to £1 billion in capital funding and £400 million in revenue to help them become
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Carter: NHS to adopt ‘meaningful use’

NHS Improvement should create ‘meaningful use’ standards for clinical IT systems and use incentives to drive better adoption of technology,
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