Adding a bit of lippy
Dr Susan Hamer and Anne Cooper were the winners of the CCIO Award for Clinical IT Leadership at last year’s EHI Awards for a course that set out to engage senior nurses in informatics. Claire Read reports.
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Jonathan Kay appointed ‘NHS CB CCIO’
The NHS Commissioning Board has appointed a clinical informatics director to “provide clinical leadership on the best use of informatics.”
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Enter the CCG
In the first of a series of columns for eHealth Insider, Dr John Lockley considers how new bodies like clinical commissioning groups can communicate effectively with their members; and how easy it is to get it wrong.
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CCIO sought by NHS Commissioning Board
The NHS Commissioning Board is advertising for a part-time Clinical Informatics Director to fulfil a national Chief Clinical Information Officer-like role.
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Joe’s view of Christmas past, present and future
Joe McDonald has seen the future of NHS IT – in a GP surgery. And there’s a pint waiting at the Trent House in Newcastle, if anybody wants one.
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Rhidian Bramley commended in HSJ awards
Rhidian Bramley, consultant radiologist and chief clinical information officer at The Christie in Manchester, has been highly commended at the annual HSJ awards.
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CCIO profile: Dr Ian Jackson
The chief clinical information officer at York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is also its clinical safety officer. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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The patient part
Get clinicians involved in IT projects if you want them to succeed; but don’t forget about patients, the first CCIO Leaders Network Annual Conference was told. Claire Read reports.
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Code it yourself?
Tim Kelsey wants clinicians to code. But the first CCIO Leaders Network Annual Conference at EHI Live 2012 debated whether this is necessary – or appropriate. Claire Read reports.
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War and peace, but mostly peace
The IT director and the chief clinical information officer of a London trust have explained how they have worked to create an electronic patient record assessed as one of the best in Europe.
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