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2 June 2016

PHRs struggling to gain traction and show benefits – review

Attempts to create a personal health records suffer from a “lack of quantifiable benefits” and some schemes face an uncertain
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20 April 2016

First free NHS wi-fi targets outlined at NIB meeting

The National Information Board was given an update on the timetable to deliver health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s promise of free
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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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7 February 2016

Hunt announces £4.2 billion for NHS IT

The government will spend £4.2 billion on NHS technology over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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31 December 2015

Sixteen tasks for NHS England in 2016

Beverley Bryant, NHS England’s director of digital technology, has laid out a busy schedule for the start of the New
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9 December 2015

NIB: Newton to take over from Kelsey

Public Health England’s John Newton is to replace Tim Kelsey as chair of the National Information Board on an interim
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10 November 2015

Can the NHS bank on IT for productivity gains?

NHS England is bidding for billions of IT investment to improve NHS productivity. A McKinsey presentation shows that if it
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5 November 2015

The long Read

Read Codes are to be phased out across the NHS, and SNOMED CT must be used in primary care systems
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4 November 2015

Bryant: ten key points from EHI Live

NHS England director of digital technology, Beverley Bryant, has updated visitors to EHI Live 2015 on the commissioning board's bid
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4 November 2015

NHS IT leaders say ‘paperless’ possible

Two-thirds of NHS IT leaders say they are confident their organisation can meet the goal to become paper-light by the
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