Joe’s view of telehealth for dummies
Joe’s Mam loves drinking tea. He’s taped an iPhone to her kettle. Now all he needs is an app to tell him she’s boiling it regularly, and he’ll be sure that she’s ok.
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Digital Doctor returns
The Digital Doctor conference is back for a second year with the aim of “demystifying health IT”.
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Enter the CCG
How can GPs be encouraged to refer effectively, all the time? GP John Lockley thinks feedback based on a three point scoring system may be the answer.
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Mersey Burns App wins EHI Awards 2013
An app that helps doctors to assess burns and deliver better treatment to patients has emerged as the overall winner of the EHI Awards 2013 in association with CGI.
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From the Heart and Chest
Johan Waktare says it’s time for his trust to start having fun with MLMs, but the time is not yet ripe for iPads.
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Joe’s view of dreams
Joe McDonald knows that you and he share a dream of using IT to improve patient care. He wants you to help put the dream into words: to create a manifesto to take the CCIO Leaders Network to the next level.
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Enter the CCG
John Lockley is looking for some simple, computer assisted ways to help his GP colleagues prescribe and refer effectively – and to help his clinical commissioning group to save money.
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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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Mental health trust appoints CCIO
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has appointed a consultant psychiatrist as chief clinical information officer.
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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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