Minister to give keynote at digital health summit
Life sciences minister George Freeman and National Information Board interim chair John Newton are amongst the keynote speakers at a Digital Health Leadership Summit this month.
Health CIO
Ireland races to implement health IT
Ireland has created an Individual Health Identifier for all patients and implemented an e-referral system in half of all its hospitals, over the past six months
Clinical Software
HSCIC Digital Leaders Programme launched
Key NHS IT and clinical staff will connect with the people developing and running national systems for health and care as part of a Digital Leaders programme, being launched today.
CCIO Network
US health CIOs catch on to phishing threat
Cybersecurity has forced itself onto the agenda of US healthcare chief information officers and become a hot button issue for the healthcare IT industry at HIMSS15.
Cyber Security
EHI interview: Richard Corbridge
Richard Corbridge will become the Irish health service’s first chief information officer this month. He spoke to Sam Sachdeva about his plans to improve the country’s healthcare IT systems.
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Corbridge steps up as Irish health CIO
Richard Corbridge has told EHI he will use the lessons he learned from the English National Programme for IT in his new role as the first chief information officer for Ireland’s health service.
News
Ray heads Health CIO Network
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’s director of informatics has been elected chair of the Health CIO Network.
News
Ireland plans big e-health investment
Ireland is planning to massively increase the amount of money that it spends on healthcare IT as part of a strategy to transform its health services and boost its economy over the next seven years.
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CIOs need to rethink roles
Chief information officers who are “too busy fixing the network” to address the business challenges of their organisations risk becoming obsolete, a leading business thinker has told EHI.
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Health CIO 2.0
This year, EHI Live will include a Health CIO stream for the first time. Paul Curran talks to keynote speaker Ade McCormack, about why IT managers need to reinvent themselves as digital leaders.
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