Royal Free heralds a new dawn of paper-free following EPR roll out
Digital Health News was invited to the new Chase Farm hospital to speak with the team behind the project about how the “big bang” go live went.
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Wachter ‘purdahed’ but says CCIOs essential
The US ‘Digital Doctor’ brought in to conduct a review of NHS IT says clinical engagement is essential to both successfully deploy new technology and overcome the ‘productivity paradox’ that initially stops it delivering expected savings.
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Rising star: Tawanda Maposa
Tawanda Maposa is a psychiatric nurse working as an IT manager in a commissioning support unit; two jobs that are not as different as you might think, he tells Lis Evenstad.
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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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Ayrshire goes slowly with TrakCare
NHS Ayrshire and Arran has slowed down its roll-out of TrakCare following feedback from clinicians on phase one of the go-live.
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From the frontline
Andrew Carr is the clinical lead for IT at the emergency department of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, where a major IT project is underway. He wonders why so few of his fellow nurses are involved in something as critical as healthcare IT.
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