PHRs focus of IT strategy – Williams
Personal health records systems are set to be a significant part of the National Information Board’s upcoming informatics strategy, Health and Social Care Information chief executive Andy Williams has said.
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EHI Live profile: Andy Williams
The chief executive of the Health and Social Care Information Centre expects the forthcoming informatics strategy to clarify the organisation’s role. Sam Sachdeva spoke to him.
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Enter the CCG on writing for a readership
GP and CCIO John Lockley teaches medical students to think about their intended audience before they pen an article. Programmers and computer users could do with following the same advice.
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Health CIO profile: Eileen Jessop
The deputy director of informatics at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust talks to Sam Sachdeva about her career, its electronic patient record plans, and the trust’s role in a changing NHS.
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Chocks away
Cumbria is on its way to paper-lite using a range of technology approaches, including the implementation of an ‘air-traffic control’ system. Lis Evenstad went to have a look.
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Emis creates PHR with Apple HealthKit
Emis is using the Apple HealthKit platform to create a personal health record that is integrated with its Emis Web GP and clinical system.
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NI chooses HP for £100m framework
Northern Ireland has chosen HP as the supplier for a framework agreement worth up to £100m to improve the region’s health IT services, refresh its patient administration system infrastructure and implement a new electronic prescribing system.
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Royal Wolverhampton gets GP records link
Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest to give its clinicians direct access to GP records from within its electronic patient record, using the Graphnet CareCentric platform.
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Digital monitoring key to health future
Personal digital health technologies could replace the traditional healthcare systems in the way that electricity made candles obsolete, health entrepreneur Ali Parsa has claimed.
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NI leads EU health and care tech project
The Health and Social Care Board in Northern Ireland is leading a €5.5m European project to help people live independently through the use of technology.
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