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Gloucestershire goes live with TrakCare

8 December 2016

Another southern trust has gone live with the TrakCare electronic patient record, after more than a year of delays.

Another IT crash in the north

7 December 2016

A component failure at a hospital has led to delayed appointments, the latest in a spate of IT crashes at NHS trusts.

NHS Digital sees off patient privacy challenge

6 December 2016

NHS Digital has seen off a challenge to the way its anonymises millions of patients’ data, with a verdict finding the practice is in keeping with national guidelines

New clinical IT framework launched

6 December 2016

The northern trust has developed a new clinical IT framework that it hopes will compete nationally in what is already a crowded market.

Aggressive ransomware blamed for NHS cyber-attack

5 December 2016

The Globe2 ransomware virus has been singled out as the culprit in the cyber-attack that took down a northern NHS trust’s systems for four days.

Digital roadmaps weak on “how” – review

5 December 2016

At least a quarter of the country’s local digital roadmaps are weak on explaining how they will deliver on a paperless vision, a regional NHS England review team has found.