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Palliative shared record system adopted by 95% of Somerset GPs

21 January 2020

Part of Somerset’s integrated care record programme, EPaCCS provides a ‘single source of truth’ regarding end of life patient care.

NHSX advertising for directors to help deliver its key missions

20 January 2020

NHSX’s CCIO, Simon Eccles, has said the unit is recruiting for directors for “currently three out of five” of its missions.

Andrew Griffiths, FEDIP board chief executive and former director of NWIS

Former NWIS director Andrew Griffiths joins FEDIP board as chief executive

20 January 2020

Griffiths was instrumental in leading on the development of NHS Wales’ national architecture and single digital patient record.

Women’s digital health market forecast to hit £227m in 2024

20 January 2020

A market forecast from consultancy R2G predicts that in five years time, there will be 1.46bn women who can be targeted with digital health solutions.

Should CIOs and CCIOs be on every board?

Networks issues open letter to get CCIOs and CIOs on NHS boards

17 January 2020

The Digital Health Networks have sent an open letter to Matthew Gould and Dr Simon Eccles on the steps needed to get CCIOs and CIOs on NHS boards.

‘Majority’ of NHS trusts lack training for video conferencing

17 January 2020

An FoI request to 80 NHS trusts found that 56% did not have training programmes in place to ensure staff were using video conferencing systems correctly.