EHI interview: Ming Tang
Rebecca Todd talks to NHS England’s director of data and information management systems, who will be speaking at EHI Information for Commissioning on 15 May.
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Leedsing the way
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Board approved an ambitious informatics strategy in 2011. Today it has made many improvements; but is also running out of money. Lis Evenstad reports.
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Enter the CCG
Dr John Lockley’s clinical commissioning group is finally up and running, putting GPs – “the frontline troops of the NHS” – in charge of the health service. He is quite pleased about this…
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Power to the People
Paul Hodgkin, the chief executive of Patient Opinion, says the NHS has turned Henry Ford’s old adage into “you can have any treatment you want, as long as it’s NICE” – but the web is making this kind of thinking utterly redundant.
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All change, please
At midnight, the latest reorganisation of the NHS finally took effect. Lyn Whitfield outlines the changes and their impact on NHS IT.
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Analyse this
Aasiya Moreea, the assistant director of clinical information and business intelligence at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust argues that a data warehouse and business intelligence are essential – and her first priority.
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Mind the gaps
Dr Phil Koczan, chief clinical information officer at UCL Partners, considers the NHS’ need for information – and why it is proving so hard to get it flowing around the service.
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Special report: community systems
Interest in integrating health and social care waxes and wanes. At the moment, it’s waxing. Fiona Barr reports.
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Rikki-Tikki-data
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust digitised its records; and then worked with Mongoose so clinicians could find them. The result won in the EHI Awards 2012, Paul Curran discovers.
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From the frontline
Andrew Carr, an emergency nurse practitioner and IT enthusiast from Cambridge, considers gamification in the NHS; and how IT could promote it.
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