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The 2016 Health and Social Care Innovation Expo wasnât short on new policies, big reveals, and fancy tech. Ben Heather examines what we learned at the big event and what questions remain.
Existing schemes to allow patients to opt-out of sharing their health data will not be immediately affected by the third Caldicott report but their future is far from assured.
The chief executive of NHS England has put his support behind wearable technology, and said he wants to make sure that trusts are financially rewarded for using it.
In response to the Wachter review of NHS IT, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced there will be two waves of ‘global’ and ‘national’ digital exemplars, forming an ‘Ivy league’ with the side effect of excluding half of trusts from pre-2020 funding.
Dr Robert Wachter has said the âunrealisticâ paperless 2020 goal should be discarded in his long-awaiting review into the digital future of the NHS, which also calls for more national funding for IT, and a further push on clinical engagement.
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled plans to âfast track digital excellenceâ today, including a further round of digital excellence centres and âinstant accessâ to a personal online health record.
EXCLUSIVE: Frantic behind the scenes lobbying is underway to persuade NHS England to pick a wide range of digital exemplar sites, ahead of the announcement of the ‘centres of digital excellence’ at tomorrow’s NHS Innovation Expo.
An NHS imaging transformation programme serving 6.6 million people across the West Midlands has entered
Health minister Preet Kaur Gill has apologised for NHSEâs handling of information provided to the
Today’s briefing features Doctify launching in Saudi Arabia and a Scottish medical management platform for
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust has now rolled out digital observations and prescribing in
The HSE and System C have announced the next phase of a national agreement that
