Michael Thick: A review of the AAR
The government’s Accelerated Access Review is a good start on shortening the time from bench to bedside innovation. But there’s more still to do, argues IMS MAXIMS’ chief clinical information officer and chief medical officer.
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Digital roadmap focus: Wakefield
E-discharge standards to GPs ‘poor’
Central NHS organisations are rebooting attempts to improve communication between emergency departments and GPs, with the ‘perpetual winter’ crisis now affecting the NHS spurring new efforts.
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Imperial College kicks off care information exchange
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has rolled out the North-West London care information exchange to patients for the first time, allowing them to access and share their record.
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Digital Roadmap Focus: South West London
Quick fixes are needed for South West London’s draft local digital roadmap to achieve its paperless vision.
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Digital Roadmap Focus: Cheshire
The footprint of Cheshire cannot achieve its regional electronic patient record goal without external funding, according its draft local digital roadmap.
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Incident reporting systems: future strategies for patient safety improvement
James Titcombe, patient safety specialist at Datix, says organisations need to avoid blame culture when it comes to reporting and learning from incidents; and to share what works with others.
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End-of-life shared systems face ‘immense challenges’ – paper
Attempts to set-up end-of-life electronic care systems are falling short, with many failing to reach the dying patients that need them, a new paper says.
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Digital Roadmap Focus: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
One of England’s largest local digital roadmap footprints says it needs at least £100 million of outside funding to achieve its digital goals.
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Shared digital pathology network set-up in the north
A first of its kind digital histopathology partnership has been created between two northern trusts to accelerate the turnaround on test results.
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