Movers and shakers news round-up
This month’s Movers and Shakers round-ups features lots of new senior appointments across various industry organisations including Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust and the Patients Association.
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Southampton showcases how PHRs benefit patients
Southampton University Hospital’s pioneering use of personal health records is speeding up patients’ treatment and reducing the need for hospital visits.
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CIOs and CCIOs must be involved at board level – Bryant
Beverley Bryant from NHS Digital has said NHS IT leaders need to be recognised at board level by trusts to drive technology forward.
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Joe’s view: On the need for a Bat Signal
Joe mourns the original Batman, reflects on why healthcare IT needs a Bat Signal, and ponders how one has been informally created through the Health CIO and CCIO Networks.
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CIOs and CCIOs urge greater clarity on shared records and data protection
Current data protection guidance is contradictory and not conducive to effective patient care according to a new discussion paper published by the CCIO and Health CIO networks.
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The CCIO interview: Shera Chok, Derbyshire Community Health
Shera Chok – chief clinical information officer and associate medical director at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust – slides into the CCIO interview hot seat. She tels us about her organisation’s e-prescribing project, and also explains why hammocks aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
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The CCIO interview: James Reed, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS FT
James Reed, chief clinical information officer at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, talks to Digital Health News about his organisation’s e-prescribing project and his musings on an alternative career as an academic Classicist.
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CCIO and CIO networks invite partnerships with academy bidders
The CCIO and Health CIO Networks have issued an open invitation to work with partners on the delivery of the NHS Digital Academy.
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NHS Hack Day is coming to the CCIO and CIO Summer Schools
NHS Hack Day, the leading grass-roots community of digital health disruptors and innovators, is coming to the Summer Schools for the first time in 2017.
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NHS Digital Academy to train 300 CCIOs and CIOs
NHS England is hoping to train 300 NHS staff to become “digital leaders” by 2021 by running them through 12-month training course.
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