Everybody will benefit from exemplars – McNeil
The NHS’ chief clinical information officer has launched a spirited defence of the controversial exemplars programme.
News
Bryant lays out conditions for helping tech cos into the NHS
NHS Digital’s director of digital transformation, Beverley Bryant, has said she wants to make it easier for businesses to sell technology to the NHS; but they will need to focus on usability, interoperability, and security.
News
Digital Roadmap Focus: Cheshire
The footprint of Cheshire cannot achieve its regional electronic patient record goal without external funding, according its draft local digital roadmap.
Interoperability
West Midlands deploys shared system for 1.4m child patients
One of NHS England’s first procurements for a single region-wide child service has migrated records for 1.4 million children onto the same software.
Clinical Software
Remote video family therapy trialled in Lincolnshire
A rural northern county is benefiting from an online psychological family therapy service for patients with severe mental illness and their families.
Clinical Software
CCIO National Conference kicks off next week
The first national chief clinical information officer will lead the programme at Digital Health’s EHI Live CCIO National Conference.
CCIO Network
Digital Roadmap Focus: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
One of England’s largest local digital roadmap footprints says it needs at least £100 million of outside funding to achieve its digital goals.
Interoperability
Mobile and app news in brief
While mobile and wireless health apps continue to be created in abundance, this is not matched by consumer demand, finds a new report from Berlin. Almost 100,000 mHealth apps have been added since January 2015, but growth rates of mHealth app store downloads are down to 7% in 2016, from 35% last year. The report […]
Digital Patient
Shared digital pathology network set-up in the north
A first of its kind digital histopathology partnership has been created between two northern trusts to accelerate the turnaround on test results.
Interoperability
Doctors beat algorithms on diagnosis – study
Doctors “vastly outperformed” computer algorithms when it comes to giving a correct , according to an American research trial.
AI and Analytics