Hunt talks up NHS IT projects in US
The government’s plan to sequence 100,000 human genomes and link these to electronic health records will be “as significant as the founding of the Internet”, health secretary Jeremy Hunt told a US audience yesterday.
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Two thousand lives
Telehealth has a mixed press, but one county is pushing ahead. Fiona Barr talks to Alison Davis from Kent and Medway Commissioning Support Service, who will also be speaking at Information for Commissioning next month.
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Pathfinders losing their way
The government’s telehealth pathfinder scheme looks certain to fail to deliver a target of 100,000 telehealth users this year.
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Revolutionary road
The government has promised a telehealth revolution; but there has been little sign of one at the events that Lis Evenstad has attended recently.
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“Pathfinders” to work on 3ML
Industry workshops with NHS ‘pathfinders’, who will identify the first 100,000 patients to benefit from the government’s 3millionlives commitment, start this month.
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No evidence for 3millionlives roll-out
The 3millionlives campaign is not justified by the results of the whole systems demonstrator trials, experts say.
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Liverpool builds Feel Good Factory
Liverpool Primary Care Trust has been awarded a Technology Strategy Board grant of £7.7m to develop an independent living programme for the elderly using telehealth, as part of the DALLAS programme.
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WSD results: ‘complex’ not compelling
The whole systems demonstrator project failed to show a reduction in emergency admissions or cost savings in regards to hospital activity, an analyst has revealed.
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Burstow puts WSD delay on publisher
Peer reviewed results of the whole systems demonstrator programme are sitting with the British Medical Journal and will be released “over the next weeks and months”, care services minister Paul Burstow has promised.
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3millionlives concordat signed
The Department of Health formally launched its 3millionlives campaign on the day that the 2020 Health think-tank urged the NHS to learn from the telehealth experience of the US Veterans Health Administration.
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