Family heartbreak inspires career change for NHS Digital data director
The loss of his daughter Scarlett just days before her due date led Daniel Ray to change his career to give back to the hospital that cared for his family.
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NHS Digital proposes analytics service to disrupt market
NHS Digital is proposing to create a “clear, baseline analytical service”, according to a paper with significant implications for the business intelligence market.
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Daniel Ray: on direct data flows
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s new director of data science says it’s time to end central returns; data needs to flow faster and it needs to flow straight from local to national systems.
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HSCIC publishes Data Quality Maturity Index
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has published its first Data Quality Maturity Index, which assesses NHS providers on the quality of the data they submit to the centre.
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Daniel Ray: on mapping a route to better quality data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s new director of data science starts a new analytics column by reflecting on the long journey that NHS data items can take; and on how to make sure they arrive in the best possible state.
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School’s in for summer
Sam Sachdeva talks to Daniel Ray and Jon Hoeksma about the Health CIO Network’s inaugural summer school in Oxford and what happens next.
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Dell supports Health CIO Network
Dell has become the latest foundation sponsor of the Health CIO Network, which was launched at EHI Live last year to bring together NHS IT directors and other healthcare information leaders.
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Health CIO profile: Daniel Ray
The director of informatics at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has the affinity for a data set that a composer has for a piano. He spoke to Sam Sachdeva.
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Birmingham develops benchmark tool
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has helped to create an international hospital benchmarking tool to understand variations in healthcare systems across the globe.
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Ray heads Health CIO Network
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’s director of informatics has been elected chair of the Health CIO Network.
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