Hancock turns up the heat on bad blockers
Last week Matt Hancock gave his most detailed speech yet on how he intends to help ensure health and care services become digitised. There was plenty of tough talk on enforcing interoperability standards. It is certainly an important and valuable pledge but, reflects Digital Health editor and founder, it’s far from a new one. Will things really be different in the age of Hancock?
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Health secretary highlights lack of national interoperability standards
Matt Hancock shadowed front-line staff during an overnight shift at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and said he was stuck by the lack of technology.
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EPR divergence in a local area ‘will not be supported’ under HSLI
STPs will be expected to support a move to a standard electronic patient record system across all regional organisations under the HSLI programme.
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Servelec and Microtest assert interoperability ambitions with IT tie-up
From Autumn, NHS trusts using the Servelec RiO EPR will be able to share information with GP practices running Microtest Open Evolution.
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Tech giants make interoperability pledge for US health data
Apple, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce will work together to drive common standards for exchanging health information in the US.
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Leicestershire Partnership embraces telehealth for digital heart failure service
The service uses Spirit Digital’s CliniTouch Vie remote monitoring platform and is designed to keep heart failure patients out of hospital.
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Interoperability now the top priority for NHS IT Leaders
Interoperability has become the highest single priority issue for NHS IT Leaders, according to the findings of the 2018 NHS IT Leadership Survey.
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Can the ‘have-nots’ overtake Exemplars in the interoperability stakes?
Are exemplar programmes really the only answer to NHS interoperability? Felim McCarthy thinks otherwise and looks at how those not invited to bid to become a Local Health and Care Record Exemplar could become interoperability heroes.
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Leaders discuss interoperability pain points at Digital Health Leadership Summit
Technical leaders from across the healthcare sector gathered to discuss how the NHS might begin to untangle interoperability challenges at Digital Health’s Leadership Summit this month.
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Local Health and Care Record Exemplar bid invites issued
NHS England has confirmed a small number of regional health and care collaborative communities across England have been invited to bid for national investment in shared health and care records.
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