DH report sends mixed mobile messages
The connectivity needed to support a big roll-out of mobile working is not yet in place, a report on the Department of Health’s flagship National Mobile Health Worker project has concluded.
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DH runs £5m tech competitions
The Department of Health has announced two competitions for small businesses, with £5m available for ideas to improve the lives of people living with mental illness or who are at the end of their lives.
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DH plans to become ‘digital examplar’
The Department of Health has said it wants to become a “digital exemplar in Whitehall” in a plan for doing more of its work online and through social media.
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Third of GP patients want online booking
The annual GP Patient Survey has found a huge gap between patients wanting to and actually being able to book GP appointments online.
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Next ten Lorenzo adopters each get £1m
The next ten NHS trusts that commit to take Lorenzo from CSC under the firm’s new National Programme for IT in the NHS deal will each get a signing-on bonus of £1m for implementation expenses.
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Revolutionary road
The government has promised a telehealth revolution; but there has been little sign of one at the events that Lis Evenstad has attended recently.
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‘Historic’ mandate highlights IT
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt today delivered an “historic” first mandate from the Government to the NHS and highlighted the need to embrace technology to achieve its aims.
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NHS CB mandated to create EHR
The NHS Commissioning Board should have plans in place for all patients to have an integrated electronic record of their care that can follow them to any part of the NHS or social care system, by 2015.
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New group to be customer for national IT
Tim Kelsey is set to chair a new informatics services commissioning group that will become an “intelligent customer” for national IT, Tim Straughan told EHI Live 2012.
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DH guidance for shared records
The Department of Health has issued guidance for organisations working in shared records environments, saying they are data controllers “in common”.
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