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Hunt pushes on intelligent transparency

A quarter of smartphone users will be accessing their medical records by 2018, CCGs will be publishing new ratings, and the NHS will have taken further steps to restore public confidence in data and security, the health secretary has promised.

Handbook ‘to define interoperability’

An interoperability handbook and procurement guide will be released tomorrow to help clinical commissioning groups write their digital roadmaps and healthcare providers achieve the vision of interoperable patient records.

56 Dean Street in email data breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office is looking into an ā€œincidentā€ involving the innovative 56 Dean Street clinic in London’s Soho, which has accidentally disclosed the HIV status of 800 patients.

CCGs must plot IT roadmaps by April

Clinical commissioning groups must submit digital roadmaps to NHS England by April next year, outlining how they will ā€œeradicate the use of paper in the treatment of patients across all health and care services in their region by 2020.ā€

A nurse looking through a shelf of paper records

Peterborough latest to Evolve records

Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planning to have fully implemented Kainos’ Evolve electronic document management system by this autumn.

eRedbook

London to roll-out eRedbook

A handful of London trusts are about to start trialling the eRedbook child health record, ahead of a capital-wide roll-out.

NME trust plans i.PM wrap and replace

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has issued a tender for an electronic record that can wrap around i.PM – and possibly go on to replace it.

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