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4 April 2016

Ireland details €875m EHR plans

Ireland is planning to spend up to €875 (£700m) on building an electronic health record over the next five to
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3 March 2016

Leadership summit: full steam ahead?

The first Digital Health Leadership Summit heard the government wants to create the ‘railroad’ over which local IT services can
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3 March 2016

‘Stars are aligned’ for health IT – Freeman

Health ministers are “completely behind” the digitisation of health and social care because “it is urgent for personal care, it
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3 March 2016

Joe’s view of lava lamps (and the Great North Care Record)

Joe McDonald says the NHS is like a lava lamp: constantly changing in response to political heat. But healthcare economies
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19 February 2016

Salford best practice site visit: Rock stars, roadies and sexy data

NHS IT leaders went to Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust to learn from its implementation of electronic patient records and
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18 February 2016

Members flock to Ireland’s CCIO council

Ireland’s Council of Clinical Information Officers has 145 members from 35 disciplines and is pushing to formalise the role across
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16 February 2016

Minister to give keynote at digital health summit

Life sciences minister George Freeman and National Information Board interim chair John Newton are amongst the keynote speakers at a
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8 February 2016

Wachter focuses on CCIOs

Dr Robert Wachter’s review of the digital future of the NHS will focus on issues of clinical engagement with IT
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5 January 2016

Enter the CCG: on what NHS IT can learn from Google

GP John Lockley points out that people use Google because it works; while they use NHS software because they have
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21 December 2015

Joe’s view: The Internet of Things

Joe McDonald has found an elegant solution to the puzzle of how to let his mum’s kettle tell him she’s
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