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Healthcare IT appointments in brief

5 February 2016

This month’s round up includes changes at King’s and Birmigham, a promotion at the HSCIC, and a new vice-president for Orion Health.

NHS 24 admits IT “systemic failure”

4 February 2016

A frank report to the Scottish Government’s Public Accounts Committee has admitted that “systemic failure” is responsible for the ongoing failure to introduce new IT to the NHS 24 service.

Emis Health opens Web to third parties

4 February 2016

Emis Health has announced an update to its Emis Web clinical system that will allow it to interoperate with any third party supplier conforming to a published set of open application interfaces.

Ireland consults public on identifier

3 February 2016

Ireland’s Health Service Executive has launched a public consultation on the privacy implications of creating a unique health identifier, similar to the NHS Number.

Maternity EHR gets ‘big bang’ launch

3 February 2016

Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with Medway Maternity in a ‘big bang’ launch across two maternity units.

1m blood donors book online

2 February 2016

Nearly 1.5 million blood donation appointments have been booked online since NHS Blood and Transplant introduced a digital booking system two years ago.

Tech money to fund transformation

1 February 2016

Most of the £1 billion promised by the government for investment in health IT is for capital investment and will be used to fund local transformation programmes enabled by technology, the interim chair of the National Information Board has said.