Enter the CCG
Dr John Lockley has some ideas for improving the use of Choose and Book – or Booze and Chuck as some of his colleagues charmingly call it.
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Can iPads, tablets and smartphones get radiology mobile? Armed with just a (paper) notePad, Paul Curran went in search of opinions.
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Book IT!
Lis Evenstad meets three entrepreneurs who threw up their day jobs to create a booking system for the NHS that is ITK compliant.
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Adding a bit of lippy
Dr Susan Hamer and Anne Cooper were the winners of the CCIO Award for Clinical IT Leadership at last year’s EHI Awards for a course that set out to engage senior nurses in informatics. Claire Read reports.
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Access denied
The government has promised that patients will have online access to their GP records by 2015; yet enthusiasm from GPs and patients is limited. Fiona Barr asks why.
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Another view
GP Neil Paul was amused by some of the easyThoughts of his fellow columnist, Joe McDonald, but would like to see more of his workload automated.
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A quick waltz round ECR 2013
More than 20,000 visitors are expected to attend the 25th European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, next week. Paul Curran takes a look at the innovations that imaging informatics companies will be taking to the show.
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CCIO profile: Dr Mike Fisher
Daloni Carlisle talks to the chief clinical information officer of Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust; a man with a very firm deadline for going paperless ahead of him.
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Netscape navigators
An exclusive eHealth Insider survey, conducted by doctors.net.uk, shows GPs are far from ready to give patients electronic access to their records by the government’s deadline of 2015. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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All SystmsGo
Three months after going live with TPP’s patient administration system, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust invited EHI news editor Rebecca Todd to see it in action; and she was impressed.
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