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NHS barcode project aimed at improving patient safety

4 January 2017

The humble barcode has been ubiquitous in retail for decades. Now the NHS is trying to use the technology to track faulty devices and improve patient safety.

London Ambulance Service investigation NY IT Outage

London Ambulance IT down for five hours on NYD

3 January 2017

Ambulance dispatchers in the capital were reduced to using pen and paper on one of the busiest nights of the year.

Michael Thick elected chair CCIO Industry Network

3 January 2017

IMS Maxims chief clinical information officer has been elected chair of the CCIO Industry Network, a group of clinicians working for healthcare technology and software suppliers.

Interoperability big priority for 2017

3 January 2017

We asked 20 UK digital health leaders for their predictions for 2017. One word came through louder than any other.

The big go-lives of 2016

30 December 2016

With the National Programme for IT finally coming to close, and new funding scarce, there were fewer system deployments in the NHS in 2016. But in those trusts that did go-live, new systems have mostly avoided the chaos that accompanied many deployments

The big stories on policy and money in 2016

29 December 2016

There was plenty of talk of money for Health IT, but the NHS organisations received more new targets than fresh cash to digitalise in 2016. Reporter Laura Stevens looks at five of the big money and policy moments of the year.

Most read Digital Health features and columns, 2016

28 December 2016

Digital Health readers wanted to know how trusts had really got on with high-profile deployments in 2016; while communicating with patients, consent and blockchain were the subjects on the minds of columnists.