Digital Maturity Index

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Maternity providers making ‘a good start’ at adopting digital, report suggests

NHS Digital tasked 135 maternity providers in England with completing a self-assessment of their digital progress, including their adoption of
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Stronger security focus to be introduced to HIMSS’ digital maturity criteria

The HIMSS model for assessing an organisation’s adoption of electronic patient records is being updated to include a stronger focus
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NHS England publishes ‘mixed’ picture of digital maturity

NHS England has published data on a series of self-reported digital maturity measures for 239 NHS trusts.
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E-discharge: standard clinical headings required by Dec

All NHS providers must send digital discharge summaries to GPs using standard clinical headings by December this year, the new
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E-discharge uptake revealed by DMI

EXCLUSIVE: Around two thirds of NHS trusts are sharing discharge summaries electronically with GPs and one fifth are prescribing electronically,
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Details of £1.8b tech funding revealed

NHS organisations will have access to £1 billion in capital funding and £400 million in revenue to help them become
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Local digital roadmaps delayed

Clinical commissioning groups now have until June to submit their Local Digital Roadmaps after NHS England pushed back the submission
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89 footprints on NHS digital plan

NHS England has received 89 ‘footprints’ from local healthcare economies working to develop roadmaps for the future of their digital
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E-discharge: unmonitored target defended

The October target for all providers to send discharge letters electronically is not being monitored nationally, but has focused attention
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22 point plan for NHS digital adoption

Exclusive: A high-level report on NHS IT by management consultants McKinsey makes 22 recommendations to drive the adoption of technology
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