EHI interview: Dr Mark Griffiths
Becky McCall talks to the new chair of the UK Imaging Informatics Group and asks what the future holds for imaging, IT and the lively forum.
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Can a big stick deliver EPR success?
EHI editor Jon Hoeksma says the NHS Commissioning Board needs to understand why the carrots of the National Programme for IT in the NHS failed to deliver electronic records, before it starts waving sticks at trusts to implement them.
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Examining: Changing PACS at Norfolk and Norwich
A PACS and radiology IT manager who has just changed PACS supplier says trusts that want to do the same cannot start soon enough. Becky McCall reports.
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Needling away at a problem
The Harm Reduction Database Wales won the ‘best use of IT to promote patient safety’ category of the EHI Awards 2012 in association with BT. Emma Dent finds out more.
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A right Royal mess
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust’s implementation of Cerner Millennium was troubled from the outset and still causing it problems. Rebecca Todd reports.
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Joe’s view of chalk and talk
It’s big, but is it clever?
Robert Francis’ final report into the Mid Staffordshire scandal is huge, but will its impact be in proportion to its size, asks Lyn Whitfield.
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Indicators and placards
The Mid Staffs scandal has already left one legacy, in the form of a new mortality indicator for the NHS. But questions remain about how it is constructed; and how useful trust-level indicators are, anyway. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Power to the people
Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, argues that public feedback, not public inquiries, are the way to get compassion back into the NHS, in the week that the Mid Staffs inquiry reports.
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Examining: University Hospitals Birmingham
In the first of a series of features looking at the decisions that trusts are making as England’s PACS/RIS market refresh gathers pace, Daloni Carlisle asks why Birmingham has moved to Agfa.
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