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4 January 2023

London North West University Healthcare goes paperless with MediViewer

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) has become entirely paperless following a two-year project to digitise 210,000 patient
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15 April 2021

‘Lack of responsibility’ for social care tech risks sector getting left behind

A Kings Fund report discovered a “clear deficit” of evidence on how digital technology is being used within social care
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A cartoon of a printer and lots of paper files
13 August 2019

Purging printers and swapping pens for PENS at Liverpool Women’s

Has going paperless fallen down the NHS agenda? Owen Hughes speaks to Jaki Allen, digital transformation programme director at Liverpool
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9 October 2018

Ex-minister speaks of ‘horror’ of having to digitise the NHS with no plan

George Freeman said his self-proclaimed ‘horror story’ highlights how "top down" solutions never work and that the answer is 'local
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8 February 2016

Carter: NHS to adopt ‘meaningful use’

NHS Improvement should create ‘meaningful use’ standards for clinical IT systems and use incentives to drive better adoption of technology,
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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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31 December 2015

Sixteen healthcare IT predictions for 2016

What are the themes that will shape healthcare IT over the coming year? Digital Health News asked some well known
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15 October 2014

Surgeons unaware of paperless plans

More than half of UK surgeons are unaware of the government’s plans to move to a paperless NHS by 2018,
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7 October 2014

Health CIO profile: Neil Darvill

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is a pioneer in paperless healthcare. Paul Curran talks to the man
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15 September 2014

The vision thing

Adrian Byrne considers the impact of health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s call for a ‘paperless’ NHS. Is it clear what it
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