Enter the CCG: Dear Santa
Pity Dr John Lockley. Three years ago, he started working for a clinical commissioning group, where the doctors struggle to speak fluent management and the managers struggle with basic doctor. What both sides need for Christmas is a Babel Fish…
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Joe’s view: of powering up competition
Joe McDonald’s festive column could also be called “my Christmas tree has a train in it.” Or “this year the gingerbread helipad is go.” But it’s all about healthcare IT, really.
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Enter the CCG has a watercooler moment
Dr John Lockley wonders why modern, digital communications so often fail to, well, communicate. They lack the watercooler moment, he concludes; and people need to remember this.
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EHI Awards 2014: Top stuff
The work that Barts Health has put into its Cerner Millennium system helped it to win the new category of ‘digital trust or health board of the year’ at the EHI Awards 2014. Sam Sachdeva reports.
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Commemorating: Professor Rick Jones
This year’s Healthcare IT Champion of the Year sadly passed away just before voting started. Sam Sachdeva talked to those who knew him to find out why so many people wanted him to win anyway.
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Joe’s view: of records standards
On a visit to Rome, Joe McDonald realises that god-like authority can command compliance with standards. Unfortunately, the Professional Records Standards Body lacks this; which means it needs our help.
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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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