iPatient Emis integration complete
iPatient has been approved as the first patient facing software available under the GP Systems of Choice contracts.
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Ewan Davis: on new leaders and hard and soft power
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is back and the NHS in England has a set of new IT leaders. So far so good, but can they make the shift from wielding hard power to encouraging collaboration, ‘honourable failure’ and a willingness to embrace what works?
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First patient facing app to get GP system approval
Ewan Davis: Putting lipstick on a pig
Putting a few open APIs on a megasuite is not the same as creating an open platform. Still, while it’s somewhat akin to putting lipstick on a pig, it’s a step in the right direction – and some pigs can be very attractive. Argues Ewan Davis.
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Ewan Davis: Texas grass fertiliser and the postmodernEHR
A postmodernEHR sounds like bullsh*t, right? Well, yes: but it could just be one of the most important developments in the history of the electronic health record…
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INTEROpen supplier group launched to promote open standards
A supplier-led interoperability group has been launched to promote the exchange of data across healthcare through the adoption of open standards.
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Barts and Homerton to link info exchanges
Barts Health NHS Trust will share patient information with Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust via a first-of-type UK link between their Cerner Health Information Exchanges, due to go-live this summer.
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Ewan Davis: the content challenge
Clinicians not modellers need to define clinical content argues Ewan Davis. That means using openEHR and the PRSB.
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London develops Health and Care Information Exchange
Health and social care organisations across the capital are working to develop a London Health and Care Information Exchange.
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Ewan Davis: open for debate
Ewan Davis, a long-term observer of healthcare IT and advocate of open solutions, joins Digital Health’s roster of regular columnists; drawing a little inspiration from Douglas Adams along the way.
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