Electronic patient records

Archive
21 April 2022

HEE renews clinical decision support tool than can integrate with EPRs

Health Education England (HEE) is extending its use of BMJ Best Practice, a decision support tool that can integrate with
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8 March 2022

Sajid Javid to unveil his new vision for NHS reform

Sajid Javid is due to announce a new vision for NHS reform, including an increased role for the NHS App
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24 February 2022

Sajid Javid wants 90% of NHS trusts to have an EPR by December 2023

The secretary of state for health and social care has said he wants 90% of NHS trusts to have an
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Hospital scene
6 August 2021

Sunderland Royal Hospital first to achieve all GDE requirements

Sunderland Royal Hospital has become the first within the NHS to achieve all requirements of the national Global Digital Exemplar
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6 July 2021

Ready to rock and roll – The Walton Centre on being a Digital Aspirant

Head of IT at The Walton Centre Justin Griffiths said the Digital Aspirant programme had “dramatically” accelerated planned digitisation works.
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8 February 2021

CQC highlights collaboration and use of digital during Covid-19

The CQC undertook a national programme of provider collaboration reviews in a bid to support providers deliver health and care
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Interoperability
23 October 2019

Narrow HSSF ‘risks locking buyers into inflexible and expensive solutions’

Robert Tysall-Blay, chief executive of WellSky, said industry leaders feared Lot 1 of the framework was “too narrow and focussed
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12 September 2019

Google and others ‘not interested in electronic patient record market’

Google's Cloud advisor said that too much money had been invested in EPR systems to give Google and rival tech
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We need to make EPRs more usable
28 January 2019

Vendors can do more to make EPRs work for clinicians

The frequently-made promise about electronic patient record systems is that they will cut the amount of time that clinicians spend
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24 January 2019

South West Yorkshire goes live with new clinical portal

The portal will provide 3,500 health and care professionals with access to patient information from eight IT systems once the
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