Trusts must comply with data standards
NHS England will use “carrots and sticks” to get trusts to comply with data standards and infrastructure requirements, says Tim Kelsey.
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NHS must use international IT standards
The NHS needs to use international IT standards if it is to make the most of the current drive towards more integrated care, the chair of IHE UK has argued.
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Joe’s view: open EHR
Joe McDonald remembers the days of dial up and proprietary web packages. Can the NHS learn from the move to virtually free software and open communities?
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Joining up is hard to do
A summit on healthcare IT systems interoperability, organised by IHE UK and the European Antilope programme, urged health to learn from the mobile industry when it comes to making progress with standards. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Looking to the future
The Royal College of Physicians has received a Future Hospital report calling for a radical shake-up of acute general medicine, underpinned by IT. Lyn Whitfield reports on the proposals and reaction to them.
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RCP launches Future Hospital
The Royal College of Physicians has called for a new approach to IT, built around “structured, standardised records”, to underpin its new blueprint for hospital care.
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EHI interview: Professor Iain Carpenter
Lyn Whitfield talks to the chair of the Professional Record Standards Body about record keeping standards and how they might be used to transform both IT and healthcare.
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Standards for EPRs launched
A new set of standards for the content and structure of electronic patient records has been launched at the Royal College of Physicians.
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Open standards key to integrated care
Open standards are key to achieving the government’s aim of integrated digital care records by 2018, says IHE’s UK chair.
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NHS urged to use IT safety standards
Trusts should adhere to patient safety standards when implementing new IT systems, a safety expert from the Health and Social Care Information Centre has argued.
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