Measure for measure
There is lots of interest in digital systems for reporting on and analysis of radiation dosage, but a long way to go to get them into widespread use in the UK. EHI Imaging Informatics editor Becky McCall reports.
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Hunt’s plan for austerITy
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has outlined ambitious plans for a paperless NHS by 2018, linked to the imperative to deliver efficiency savings. Lyn Whitfield heard his speech at Policy Exchange.
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Joe’s view of computer assisted self care
Joe McDonald has been flying easyJet and thinks it’s time that the NHS adopted for some easyThinking. He can even say what an easyMood service would look like…
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From the frontline
Andrew Carr is the clinical lead for IT at the emergency department of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, where a major IT project is underway. He wonders why so few of his fellow nurses are involved in something as critical as healthcare IT.
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High road, remote care
Scotland has embraced video conferencing as a way of reaching remote patients in the Highlands and Islands. Rebecca Todd visited Inverness, where she heard more about the projects.
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Enter the CCG
In the first of a series of columns for eHealth Insider, Dr John Lockley considers how new bodies like clinical commissioning groups can communicate effectively with their members; and how easy it is to get it wrong.
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Power to the people
Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, admits that people aren’t always very nice; and that they can be really nasty when they get behind the keyboard of a computer. Fortunately, the economics of the web can help.
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Making IT ‘appen
Haidar Samiei and Brad Wilson have developed some really useful medical apps – and a wasteful meetings game. Rebecca Todd dropped by Leeds University Teaching Hospital to learn more.
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Business Intelligence: information for commissioning
Information will be crucial for the clinical commissioning groups that will be starting work in just three months’ time. Fiona Barr reports.
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Hard Times
EHI Primary Care’s latest, exclusive survey of staff working in primary care IT shows that the reforms have been hard; and may yet take a greater toll. Fiona Barr reports.
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