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HSCIC outlines bureaucracy busting plans

5 November 2013 1:06 PM

The Health and Social Care Information Centre will release a report on reducing the burden of data collection for the NHS this month.

£20m of tech fund to go on open source

5 November 2013 12:18 PM

Up to £20m of the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ will go towards open source development.

Mental health IT ‘at best ok’ – survey

5 November 2013 12:09 PM

Mental health IT systems are at best “ok” according to a survey of system usability carried out by the National Mental Health Informatics Network and presented at EHI Live 2013.

084 numbers banned

5 November 2013 12:00 AM

The use of expensive 084 numbers by GP practices has been banned by NHS England.

Epsom implements Harris portal

5 November 2013 12:00 AM

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust is implementing a clinical portal from Harris Healthcare in a clinically led IT project.

The Rotherham moves to best of breed

4 November 2013 12:00 AM

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has issued a draft informatics strategy, in which it blames a failure to listen to clinicians’ views for its disastrous Meditech v6.0 implementation, and says it will now adopt a ‘best of breed’ approach to EPR.

More s251 stop-gaps put in place

4 November 2013 12:00 AM

Some patient confidential data will continue to flow to commissioners until the end of the year while the Confidentiality Advisory Group considers new Section 251 exemption requests.