Healthcare IT appointments in brief
This month’s round-up covers new chief information officer appointments Lewisham and Greenwich, Sandwell and West Birmingham and Morecambe Bay NHS trusts.
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This month’s round-up covers new chief information officer appointments Lewisham and Greenwich, Sandwell and West Birmingham and Morecambe Bay NHS trusts.
NHS England has set aside Ā£55 million to reward GPs and hospitals to increase the uptake of electronic referrals to 100% by 2018.
Challenges with booking and reporting patient activity following the implementation of Lorenzo at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are contributing to major activity under-performance, which has cost the trust Ā£12 million to date.
The Wellcome Trust has returned to the debate about the use of health data with a report arguing that researchers and companies must show ‘public benefit’ for sharing to be acceptable.
Seventeen health and social care organisations across Berkshire will share the care records of 855,000 patients using CareCentric software from Graphnet.
A winter pressures business intelligence tool developed at Ipswich Hospital with Medeanalytics is providing an early warning system for capacity shortfalls and enabling the trust to develop alternative provision.
The Department of Healthās dispute with Fujitsu over the companyās exit from the National Programme for IT in 2008 was not resolved in 2014, is still ongoing, and could last another two years, according to a news agency.
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with patient engagement platform (PEP) supplier
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is able to issue all blood group products
Professor Phil Wood, CEO at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, is the latest keynote speaker
A Bill intended to improve UK cyber defences will prevent attacks similar to the ransomware
Global healthcare AI firm Huma has announced its acquisition of GP online consultation and digital