Sharing the pain
Legal issues, information governance, patient consent; the barriers to information sharing are legion. Good job CCIOs are committed to getting through them. Claire Read reports.
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Different but equal
The latest survey of chief clinical information officers has found that they are forming effective and equal working relationships with managerial colleagues; and starting to think about the business benefits of IT.
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EHI Live interview: Professor Jane Dacre
The new president of the Royal College of Physicians has been plunged into the debate about the future of the NHS. Lyn Whitfield talks to her about the RCP’s Future Hospital vision, which is underpinned by IT.
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Health CIO profile: Rachel Dunscombe
Rachel Dunscombe, the chief information officer at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, she tells Paul Curran why she opted for a career in IT, rather than music.
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Enter the CCG wrestles with the wrong sort of detail
John Lockley has stress added to his holiday by a badly designed online check-in system; but that’s nothing to what the NHS inflicts on some of its users.
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CCIO profile: James Woollard
Lis Evenstad talks to Dr James Woollard, clinical fellow to Dr Geraldine Strathdee, the national director for mental health, about technology, culture, and his ambition to become a CCIO one day.
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CCIO profile: Afzal Chaudhry
Claire Read talks to the clinical lead for IT at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust about preparing for its Epic electronic patient record implementation.
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Enter the CCG on writing for a readership
GP and CCIO John Lockley teaches medical students to think about their intended audience before they pen an article. Programmers and computer users could do with following the same advice.
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Joe’s view: open EHR
Joe McDonald remembers the days of dial up and proprietary web packages. Can the NHS learn from the move to virtually free software and open communities?
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Enter the CCG: fall over a system error
Dr John Lockley discovers a potentially fatal system error in some hotel lighting; and vows to make sure that the same problems won’t turn up in the replacement for Choose and Book.
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