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The October target for all providers to send discharge letters electronically is not being monitored nationally, but has focused attention on the need to make the process paperless, supporters have argued.
Some Nottinghamshire GPs have used the October e-discharge target to stop receiving faxes altogether, forcing all providers to adopt electronic processes.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust must improve the way information flows around its site, according to a report by the Care Quality Commission, that says the trust is struggling to cope with patient numbers and “requires improvement.”
A portal pulling together information from various clinical IT systems is being implemented at South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
Exclusive: The NHS needs to spend an additional Ā£7.2 billion to Ā£8.3 billion on digital technology over the next five years in order to achieve savings of between Ā£8.3 billion and Ā£13.7 billion, according to a report commissioned by NHS England.
Exclusive: A high-level report on NHS IT by management consultants McKinsey makes 22 recommendations to drive the adoption of technology and achieve the anticipated productivity gains; many of which have already become policy.
Three southern hospital trusts due to go-live with InterSystemsā electronic patient record this month have delayed their roll-outs until spring 2016.
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has postponed the go-live of its Oracle Health electronic patient record
NHS trusts using the FDP have treated on average 114 more inpatients in theatres a
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has delayed the go live for its Cerner Millennium
Charlotte Refsum, director of health policy at the Tony Blair Institute will sit on the
Professor Sir Stephen Powis, national medical director at NHS England, has been confirmed as the
