Information revolution

Archive
7 December 2010

Power to the people?

Will the information revolution drive choice and quality in the NHS? Fiona Barr weighs up the evidence.
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2 December 2010

More doubt cast on impact of info

Presenting high quality data to patients is unlikely to directly drive improvements in the quality of care, according to a
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30 November 2010

DH to stay with new public health arm

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has quietly dropped his pre-election pledge to rename the Department of Health the Department of Public
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30 November 2010

Info revolution ‘undermined by cuts’

Patient information services in more than 50% of NHS trusts are under threat or being cut, according to a survey
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29 November 2010

Dr Foster and Birmingham clash again

One of two trusts identified by Dr Foster as having higher than expected death rates and more deaths than would
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23 November 2010

Making patient control the goal

Patient control of records is the government’s stated goal. Fiona Barr teases out the challenges ahead.
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23 November 2010

Connelly says patients will have control

The NHS director general of informatics has confirmed that the government plans to provide patients with the ability to ‘control’
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18 November 2010

Greenhalgh attacks HealthSpace response

The author of the definitive study of the personal health record portal HealthSpace has attacked the Department of Health’s response
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17 November 2010

Connelly: NHS must look beyond NPfIT

The Department of Health’s director general for informatics says that it is time to think beyond the national programme, or
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17 November 2010

NHS PHR HealthSpace fails to deliver

Patients have found the government’s personal health record project HealthSpace neither useful nor easy to use and only a tiny
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