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Healthcare IT news in brief

This week’s healthcare IT round-up focuses on software deployments, ranging from the addition of electronic referrals to palliative care from Cumbria’s e-referral service, to another trust rolling out wi-fi for patients.

Alder Hey works with Watson on ‘cognitive hospital’

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has entered a collaboration with the Hartree Centre to use IBM’s artificial intelligence programme Watson to create the UK’s first ‘cognitive hospital’; starting with a tool to help anxious children.

HSCIC publishes Data Quality Maturity Index

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has published its first Data Quality Maturity Index, which assesses NHS providers on the quality of the data they submit to the centre.

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