Healthcare IT appointments in brief
The last appointments round-up of 2015 has news of change at the very top of the Department of Health, at the controversial care.data programme, and at trusts and healthcare IT suppliers in the UK.
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The last appointments round-up of 2015 has news of change at the very top of the Department of Health, at the controversial care.data programme, and at trusts and healthcare IT suppliers in the UK.
A Southampton hospital plans to digitise its existing patient records and replace paper processes with electronic forms using Hylandās electronic document management system OnBase by Hyland, before closing its records library in 2017.
Free wi-fi will be available across all NHS buildings in England as part of the governmentās commitment to a paperless health service by 2020, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
The medical records of patients at a mental health trust in Leeds are now available on the cityās shared electronic care record.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has selected Allscripts to provide its new electronic patient record, which it plans to have in place by the end of 2016.
This week’s round-up of health tech news includes the creation of a clinical informatics council in Wales and a delay to the implementation of RiO at Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust.
Ireland has created an Individual Health Identifier for all patients and implemented an e-referral system in half of all its hospitals, over the past six months
Clinicians at Yeovil Hospital can now access Dorset patients’ GP data through Somerset’s shared care
The NIHR has awarded 36 NHS organisations Ā£30 million to fund new medical technology and
Digital Health and the Equity Charter have joined forced to tackle racism through a partnership
The Digital Health news team gather to dissect the digital and technology aspects of Lord
Today’s Coffee Time Briefing covers a German AI-powered exoskeleton and digital pathology funding for Leeds