Bryant backs The Big EPR Debate
Beverley Bryant, NHS England’s director of strategic systems and technology, has urged EHI readers to take part in The Big EPR Debate and influence June’s guidance on electronic patient records.
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Just 61 practices offer records access
Just 61 GP practices in England are offering patients full online access to their patient records.
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Kelsey hails breakthrough for care.data
Tim Kelsey, the national director of patients and information, has claimed a breakthrough in linking-up data flows between secondary and primary care.
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New records standards body launched
A major new Professional Records Standards Body has been launched to promote the development of health and care records based on common record keeping standards.
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Cumbria ‘air traffic control’ starts up
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with the first phase of a Cumbria-wide resource matching and e-referral system.
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Further call for halt on NHS 111
NHS Clinical Commissioners has called for a halt to the NHS 111 roll-out, as NHS England admits there are lessons to be learned.
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Speech therapy on Galaxy quest
Families in Liverpool are being given tablet computers with wireless communications to “revolutionise” the way they receive speech therapy.
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PACS/RIS refresh reaches London
The shake-up of England’s PACS/RIS market is taking place in a series of orderly waves, according to the latest analysis from EHI Intelligence.
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NHS should ‘look to lastminute.com’
Trade body Intellect has urged the NHS to learn from the private sector when it comes to building a new digital architecture to meet the ‘paperless’ challenge.
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Trust portal has Cache with others
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s in-house web based portal is to be used at two other health and care providers.
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