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Last 111 sites live in February

13 December 2013 12:00 AM

The last NHS 111 sites are due to go live with the service in February 2014, nearly a year after originally planned.

Southampton upgrades wi-fi

13 December 2013 12:00 AM

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is upgrading its wireless infrastructure to support a roll-out of mobile clinical applications across the trust.

£50m of tech fund rolled over

12 December 2013 10:02 AM

Around £50m of the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ will be rolled over into ‘tech fund 2’ because projects could not meet deliverability targets.

Barts clinicians view GP data in Cerner

12 December 2013 12:00 AM

Barts Health NHS Trust is using Cerner’s Health Information Exchange to view a summary of patients’ GP records, embedded within its Millennium electronic patient record system.

NHS data ‘useful but hard to collect’

12 December 2013 12:00 AM

Clinicians think that two thirds of data collections in the NHS are useful and relevant to patient care, but a common dataset and automation of data collection is still needed, according to a report by the NHS Confederation.

Simon Stephens says NHS will create new regional Digital Innovation Hubs

Transform care with technology – Stevens

12 December 2013 12:00 AM

The healthcare industry needs to take advantage of technology and innovation to transform the way care is delivered, says Simon Stevens, NHS England’s next chief executive.

First cut of VistA for NHS developed

11 December 2013 12:00 AM

Two US companies have worked with UK open source experts to create a ‘first cut’ of an anglicised version of the VistA electronic patient record system.