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 making notes – so bolstering the time that can be spent on patient care. But, argues Dmitry Garbar, more needs to be done if this promise is to be fully kept.
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HealtheDataLab: Improving population health with a secure, next-generation research tool
Discussions around the power of data and analytics in the advancement of healthcare have seen no shortage of excitement and expectations from both providers and patients. With this, the invaluable role of data scientists has also been brought to the spotlight. However, their work includes a less appealing element that is both exhausting and time/resource-consuming: […]
AI and Analytics
Advisory Series: Interoperability
Data sharing between primary and secondary care has long been a digital challenge for the NHS. But with Matt Hancock focusing his attention on resolving the problem and a new national programme underway, is a corner about to be turned? Maja Dragovic finds out.
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Two countries united by natural language processing?
George Bernard Shaw famously quipped that the US and the UK were two countries separated by a common language. But in natural language processing, State-side hospitals are finding a means of better assesing the appropriateness of specific tests or procedures – and Dan Kazzaz argues the NHS could valuably follow suit.
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Special Report: Shared Care Records
How much progress has been made on shared records, what obstacles remain, and can the exemplars help other areas of the NHS progress? Maja Dragovic investigates.
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Digital is a valuable tool for prevention – and so rightly it’s at the heart of the long term plan
Digital is at the heart of the NHS Long Term Plan. Quite right too, argues Tara Donnelly – it can be the means of moving to prevention as a priority, something that will benefit health service and patients alike.
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Revolutionising patient care and clinician efficiency with InfoFlex
The development of a web based clinical portal by InfoFlex is transforming digital patient management in North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Clinical Software
How can health IT leaders mitigate the impact of business disruption events?
When it comes to business continuity planning, healthcare is often ahead of the game – regulatory requirements make sure of that. But for health IT leaders, such planning is complex and constantly evolving, or at least should be. Shalen Sehgal, managing director at Crises Control, suggests some key actions CIOs and CCIOs should be taking on continuity planning.
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Improving patient safety with Scan4Safety
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has used a healthcare e-commerce solution since 2002, and in recent years has introduced a cloud-based catalogue system – making it far easier to share standardised data – and an inventory control system.
Infrastructure
Flexible Cloud Working – helping tackle the GP shortage in Urgent & Primary Care
Our research found that 49% of GPs believe current demands are unsustainable and 45% say being able to make patient calls from home is the answer. Sesui explores how Flexible Cloud Communications in Primary & Urgent Care is Making a positive impact.
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