Data, data everywhere
What kind of insights can you get out of 180m rows of hospital and primary care data? Sam Sachdeva joined a London data challenge to find out.
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Care.data pilots to be chosen ‘shortly’
Between two and four clinical commissioning groups will be selected “in the coming weeks” to begin the pathfinder stage of the care.data programme.
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Possible Gloucestershire telehealth scam
On the buses
In the latest of EHI’s series on information sharing initiatives, Rebecca Todd reports on the Oxfordshire Care Summary.
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King’s Fund warns of “cracks” in system
The King’s Fund has found further signs of financial stress on the health service – and warned that “cracks are starting to appear” in its performance against key targets.
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Enter the CCG on stats use and abuse
A little statistical knowledge is a dangerous thing, argues GP John Lockley; who has come up with a manifesto for good practice.
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Greater Manchester CSU migrates CCG data
The Greater Manchester Commissioning Support Unit is closing the 17 data centres it manages on behalf of 12 clinical commissioning groups and moving their data to a single location.
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Central Eastern CSU to shut its doors
The Central Eastern Commissioning Support Unit has decided to close down in October 2014, despite being financially viable for the next two years. This will bring the total number of CSUs down to 15.
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Enter the CCG, one year on
Dr John Lockley reflects on the highs and lows of his first year as clinical lead for informatics at Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, and on what comes next.
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‘Losers and winners’ for GP IT
The planned redistribution of GP IT funding across England will be “controversial” and “create losers as well as winners”, according to NHS England’s head of business systems, Richard Jefferson.
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