Exclusive: Local Health and Care Records initiative may lose funding
Future funding for LHCREs may be redirected to fund other projects, including last week’s £1.8bn for NHS infrastructure and £250m for a National AI Lab.
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UCLH launches open clinical trial discovery platform
Jon Hoeksma reports on how a new open clinical trials discovery platform has been developed by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Taiwan targets digital health and smart tech for exports
Asian tiger Taiwan is now targeting growing digital health exports as part of its next wave of hi-tech growth, Jon Hoeksma reports.
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NHS England chief information officer Will Smart ‘set to move on’
Sources told Digital Health that Smart is expected to leave his role as part of the wholesale shake-up of IT leadership at NHS England.
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Beginning of the End for Exemplars?
Digital Health editor Jon Hoeksma reports that the era of exemplar could be coming to an end following an event focussed on the LHCRE programme.
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LHCRE lead to leave for big consultancy
Inderjit Singh, national lead on the LHCRE programme and head of architecture and cyber security at NHSX is joining PA Consulting.
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New NHSX boss to be keynote at Summer Schools
Matthew Gould will also attend as a delegate to meet with and hear from the diverse range of NHS CCIOS, CIOs, CNIOs and Future Digital Leaders taking part.
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Thames Valley and Surrey LHCRE picks Graphnet for regional shared record
The new £12.5 million, seven-year contract will focus on building on and joining up existing shared care records for 3.8m citizens across Surrey, the Thames Valley and Buckinghamshire.
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NHS Digital to appoint ‘Robin Hood of data’ as interim chief medical officer
Digital Health News understands that NHS Digital is set to appoint co-founder and co-chair of the INTEROPen standards group, Dr Amir Mehrkar.
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A tug of war over LHCREs is underway
When the Local Health and Care Record Exemplars LHCREs were created, the official line is that they would support local direct care and enable population health management and analytics at regional level. But, as Digital Health editor Jon Hoeksma reports, tensions are emerging on whether they should also provide a bridge to a federated care.data-like national data resource.
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