National media frenzy follows breast cancer IT scandal announcement
Reactions have been pouring in to the news that a ‘computer algorithm failure’ which dated back to 2009 resulted in around 450,000 missing their final breast cancer screening.
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Reactions have been pouring in to the news that a ‘computer algorithm failure’ which dated back to 2009 resulted in around 450,000 missing their final breast cancer screening.
Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Health and Social Care Secretary said the affected group of women were not sent invitations before their 71st birthday because of “a computer algorithm failure” that dated back to 2009.
The CIO at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has said the organisation is planning to go live with an open source electronic health record (EHR) “some time between June and October” this year.
Improving outcomes for patients with sepsis is a major NHS priority. The condition, which annually costs the NHS an estimated ÂŁ2.5 billion, claims at least 44,000 lives in the UK each year. Around 14,000 of these deaths are preventable.
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will end its contract with DXC Technology in 2020 after signing up System C as its new EPR supplier.
Four frontline clinicians have started begun a year’s informatics fellowship at NHS Digital to support the design of a new generation of digital tools and services for NHS staff and patients.