Maternity providers making ‘a good start’ at adopting digital, report suggests
NHS Digital tasked 135 maternity providers in England with completing a self-assessment of their digital progress, including their adoption of electronic health records, data-sharing and offering service users access to online services.
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Stronger security focus to be introduced to HIMSS’ digital maturity criteria
The HIMSS model for assessing an organisation’s adoption of electronic patient records is being updated to include a stronger focus on security.
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NHS England publishes ‘mixed’ picture of digital maturity
NHS England has published data on a series of self-reported digital maturity measures for 239 NHS trusts.
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E-discharge: standard clinical headings required by Dec
All NHS providers must send digital discharge summaries to GPs using standard clinical headings by December this year, the new draft NHS standard contract says.
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E-discharge uptake revealed by DMI
EXCLUSIVE: Around two thirds of NHS trusts are sharing discharge summaries electronically with GPs and one fifth are prescribing electronically, early findings from digital maturity self-assessments show.
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Details of £1.8b tech funding revealed
NHS organisations will have access to £1 billion in capital funding and £400 million in revenue to help them become paperless over the next five years.
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Local digital roadmaps delayed
Clinical commissioning groups now have until June to submit their Local Digital Roadmaps after NHS England pushed back the submission date.
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89 footprints on NHS digital plan
NHS England has received 89 ‘footprints’ from local healthcare economies working to develop roadmaps for the future of their digital health services.
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E-discharge: unmonitored target defended
The October target for all providers to send discharge letters electronically is not being monitored nationally, but has focused attention on the need to make the process paperless, supporters have argued.
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22 point plan for NHS digital adoption
Exclusive: A high-level report on NHS IT by management consultants McKinsey makes 22 recommendations to drive the adoption of technology and achieve the anticipated productivity gains; many of which have already become policy.
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