Joe’s view of pushing rocks
As chair of the CCIO Leaders Network, Joe McDonald is getting a lot of calls for clinical engagement on national projects. A better way is needed, grounded in a national clinical engagement strategy.
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Speakers announced for EHI Live 2013
Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s national director for patients and information, will be the keynote speaker at EHI Live 2013; where he will head a programme of top-name presenters.
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Enter the CCG
Rolls-Royce spends half its R&D budget on refining the construction process for its products. Dr John Lockley thinks the NHS should do the same thing.
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IT’s good to talk
Claire Read talks to Amanda Logue, a CMIO who has just seen her hospital recognised as one of the US’ ‘most wired’, but who still wants doctors and nurses to talk to each other, and to talk to patients about technology.
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CCIO profile: Dr Charles Gutteridge
The former national clinical director of NPfIT has a new job driving IT at Bart’s Health. And he wants to drive fast, he tells Claire Read.
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Joe’s view from the school room
EHI CCIO Leaders Network chair Joe McDonald has been back to (summer) school with a lot of clever people, a lot of whom are very interested in open source.
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CCIO profile: Dr Les Boobis
Les Boobis’ parents were disappointed when he studied medicine rather than IT, but he’s managed to combine the two at City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, with a big Meditech v6.0 implementation. Daloni Carlisle talks to him.
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Clinical informatics needs networks
The development of chief clinical information officers and health informatics professionals requires sustained investment in networks and professionalism, says NHS England’s clinical informatics director.
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Ready, teddy, go
EHI news editor Rebecca Todd visited Oxford to find out what bad karma, hugging teddies, and the Welsh rugby team have to do with a major NHS IT go-live.
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CCIO profile: Dr Hashim Reza
The chief clinical information officer of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust wants an end to keyboards – among many other things. Daloni Carlisle talks to him.
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