Telehealth benefits realised
A Yorkshire project proves the cost benefits of telehealth, says a report on the scheme by think-tank 2020health.
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Cabinet Office blocks Capita contract
SCR programme a ‘disgrace’
More than 22m summary care records exist, but have only been viewed 240,000 times, sparking high-level calls to scrap the records programme.
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Trusts could lose contracts without EPR
The NHS Commissioning Board is drawing up plans designed to dramatically accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records by NHS hospital trusts.
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Insourcing works for Brighton and Sussex
‘Insourcing’ services has helped Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust gain the upper hand in its development of IT, the trust’s director of health informatics says.
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CSUs to spend £670m a year
The commissioning support units that will come into being on 1 April will spend around £700m a year on IT and other support services, according to a new report from EHI Intelligence.
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Info centre chair sought
The government wants to recruit someone with a “deep understanding of the transformative power of information and data” to be chair of the Health and Social Care Information Centre-
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Royal Berks finances hit by Millennium
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is facing significant operational and financial pressures after implementing Cerner Millennium and expects to spend another £6.2m implementing the system this year.
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Keogh extends ‘outlier’ inquiry
The NHS Commissioning Board has announced that it is widening its inquiry into hospitals with apparently worrying mortality rates.
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Sussex ‘done and dusted’ with 2e2
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust will have “done and dusted” its contract with the now-defunct systems integrator 2e2 by next Monday, the trust’s IT director says.
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