Members flock to Ireland’s CCIO council
Ireland’s Council of Clinical Information Officers has 145 members from 35 disciplines and is pushing to formalise the role across the country.
CCIO Network
Publishing BI data improves hospital performance
Publishing regular comparative performance data has driven significant clinical operational and financial improvements at a Gateshead trust, its chief clinical information officer has said.
AI and Analytics
HSCN connections available this summer
NHS and social care organisations should be able to tender for a new Health and Social Care Network connection by this summer.
Infrastructure
Healthcare IT news in brief
This week’s industry round-up includes a number of contract announcements from Hitachi, ANS and 6PM.
News
33,000 patients go with the Flo
A telehealth text messaging system developed in Stoke has been adopted by more than 70 health and social care services across the UK.
Digital Patient
SCR in outpatients and police rooms
Access to NHS Summary Care Records is being extended to scheduled care settings and dedicated medical rooms in police stations.
News
E-discharge uptake revealed by DMI
EXCLUSIVE: Around two thirds of NHS trusts are sharing discharge summaries electronically with GPs and one fifth are prescribing electronically, early findings from digital maturity self-assessments show.
Clinical Software
DigitalHealth.London to work with SMEs
A programme launched in London today aims to bring together clinicians with healthcare providers, entrepreneurs and industry to speed up the the adoption and commercialisation of digital health technologies.
News
Details of £1.8b tech funding revealed
NHS organisations will have access to £1 billion in capital funding and £400 million in revenue to help them become paperless over the next five years.
Clinical Software
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, Lord Carter’s review of hospital productivity recommends.
AI and Analytics