EHealth Insider diary,
Should modern IT projects really take longer than Victorian feats of engineering? This was the question posed by the veteran observer of the government IT scene, Tony Collins, after reading Adrian Stevens’ interview about the development of Lorenzo on the E-Health Insider website. Stevens said that most IT projects take 10-15 years, so people should […]
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Happy birthday, BNF
The British National Formulary was 60 yesterday, but it is certainly not retiring. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Connelly: NHS must look beyond NPfIT
The Department of Health’s director general for informatics says that it is time to think beyond the national programme, or risk being held prisoner by it.
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Look, no vans
St Helens and Knowsley has seen a rapid return on its investment in an electronic document management system, Sarah Bruce hears.
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Another view: Neil Paul
EHI Primary Care’s GP helps a colleague with a slow running computer and wonders why performance isn’t easier to measure and fix.
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EHealth Insider diary,
The diary has been struggling to come up with an IT angle to the following story, but it’s such a funny and touching tribute to the NHS that we’ve decided to run it even though there isn’t one. Wales Online reported this week that the South Wales Orienteering Club "had decided to sample the […]
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Standard debate
The need for standards to underpin interoperability was one of the big themes of EHI Live 2010. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Live issues
There were plenty of unanswered questions for primary care IT by the end of EHI Live 2010. But delegates did get some practical glimpses of the way ahead. Fiona Barr reports.
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EHI Interview: Adrian Stevens
On the eve of EHI Live 2010, and 12 months on from a now infamous prediction, EHI editor Jon Hoeksma interviews iSoft’s UK managing director.
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EHealth Insider diary,
Every few years, responsibility for dealing with NHS complaints that can’t be resolved at a local level is shifted onto a new organisation. Currently, the job sits with Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman Ann Abraham, who has just published her first report on the subject. It concludes – as so many have done before – that […]
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