The CIO interview: Andy Vernon, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Andy Vernon, chief information officer at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, tells us why he’d like to travel back in time to meet a bongo-playing Nobel Prize winner in this week’s CIO interview.
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Leadership Summit: Should CIOs and CCIOs be executive board members?
Sitting as an executive on the board can help CIOs do their job “much more effectively”, delegates at Digital Health’s Leadership Summit in Bristol heard.
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The CIO interview: Christine Walters, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
This week Digital Health News sits down with Christine Walters, CIO at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, who talks us through some of the most significant milestones of the past 12 months.
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The CIO interview: Ed Tucker, DP Governance
Ed Tucker, CIO of DP Governance explains why AI is overrated, importance of a customer centric back to basics approach and who he admires in the industry.
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PAS and pathology – the problem with old systems
Health CIO Network chair Ade Byrne argues that its time to look beyond the legacy of hospital PAS and pathology systems, that have long-dominated hospital IT, and instead more rationally plan for the systems needed for the future.
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Hack, healthcare and ‘social needia’
David Walliker, chief information officer at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust, recalls his first hack event and how it turned out to be more exciting than watching Spurs play at Wembley Stadium.
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Can the road to open platform run alongside closed systems?
I have read with interest the recent blog post by Ewan Davies where he describes the meaning of open platform. Some people are viewing this now as EMR 2.0, quoting Gartner as saying that there has been too much reliance on single vendor closed proprietary systems.
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The CIO interview: Sonia Patel, London North West Healthcare
Chief information officer at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust, Sonia Patel, has only just begun her role but already wants to redefine the electronic patient record. The dream person to play her in the movie of her life is a Games of Thrones A-lister.
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Online workshop to help guide Building a Digital Ready Workforce programme
Health Education England is launching an online workshop to gather views on improving the digital readiness of health and social care workforce in England.
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