Integrated care pioneers ‘struggling and facing IT issues’
The government’s integrated care pioneers have made little progress and are struggling with IT and information governance issues, an official evaluation has shown.
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The government’s integrated care pioneers have made little progress and are struggling with IT and information governance issues, an official evaluation has shown.
The round-up includes news of a new chair for the Health and Social Care Information Centre and head of health at techUK.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has launched an investigation into the QRisk2 calculator used by some GPs using TPP’s SystmOne to assess the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients.
Barts Health NHS Trust will share patient information with Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust via a first-of-type UK link between their Cerner Health Information Exchanges, due to go-live this summer.
The blockchain technology that underpins the virtual currency Bitcoin has been applied to clinical trial documents, to see if it can stop them being altered to make it look as if medicines are more effective than they are.
Path Links, a pathology service for Lincolnshire, is to upgrade to digital pathology in a bid to enhance cancer diagnostics.
Pharmacy2U has unveiled a £3.5 million “state of the art prescription fulfilment facility” in Leeds, that will increase its capacity ten times and enable it to dispatch a million prescription items a month.
Vin Diwakar, medical director for transformation at NHSE, said that fixing the basic digital infrastructure
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Former NHSE director of digital transformation, Beverley Bryant is undertaking a rapid review of EPR
Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber has announced the latest cohort for its Propel@YH digital health
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has announced plans to implement Epic’s electronic patient record