Kelsey hails breakthrough for care.data
Tim Kelsey, the national director of patients and information, has claimed a breakthrough in linking-up data flows between secondary and primary care.
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New records standards body launched
A major new Professional Records Standards Body has been launched to promote the development of health and care records based on common record keeping standards.
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Cumbria ‘air traffic control’ starts up
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with the first phase of a Cumbria-wide resource matching and e-referral system.
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Further call for halt on NHS 111
NHS Clinical Commissioners has called for a halt to the NHS 111 roll-out, as NHS England admits there are lessons to be learned.
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Speech therapy on Galaxy quest
Families in Liverpool are being given tablet computers with wireless communications to “revolutionise” the way they receive speech therapy.
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PACS/RIS refresh reaches London
The shake-up of England’s PACS/RIS market is taking place in a series of orderly waves, according to the latest analysis from EHI Intelligence.
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NHS should ‘look to lastminute.com’
Trade body Intellect has urged the NHS to learn from the private sector when it comes to building a new digital architecture to meet the ‘paperless’ challenge.
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Trust portal has Cache with others
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s in-house web based portal is to be used at two other health and care providers.
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Standards Board splits in two
The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care is being replaced by two new organisations.
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New software is all heart
A new software-based prototype to help doctors identify the extent of heart disease in patients without recourse to invasive procedures is to be tested on 100 patients during a three-year trial.
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