Former NHS Digital chief exec appointed as Zesty’s Board advisor
The former chief executive of NHS Digital, Andy Williams, has now joined leading European digital health company, Zesty as its Board Advisor.
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Cerner “lowered prices, rather a lot,” to get into GDE “game”
One of the most experienced and highly regarded NHS CIOs has said Cerner significantly dropped its prices to win new business through the GDE programme.
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Hunt says technology will create “patient power decade” in NHS
Jeremy Hunt used his keynote speech at the Health and Care Innnovation Expo to announce a series of new promises on online access to healthcare information, with a view to ensuring the next 10 years come to be known as the NHS’s “patient power decade”.
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18 NHS hospital ‘fast follower’ trusts named
The second wave of 18 NHS digital pioneers, or ‘fast followers’, will be named today at the NHS Innovation Expo in Manchester by Secretary of State for Health Jeremy.
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Fast Followers due to be announced at NHS Innovation Expo
At the NHS Innovation Expo event in Manchester next week, NHS England will announce the 20 acute trusts it has chosen to become ‘fast followers’ in its flagship Global Digital Exemplar programme.
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£385 million GDE funding approved by Treasury
The Treasury has approved £385 million for the global digital exemplar programme, according to Matthew Swindells, NHS England director.
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Confidence in achieving NHS 2020 digitisation targets falls
Digital Health Intelligence’s annual survey of NHS IT leaders has found confidence in achieving key national targets on digital have dropped over the past 12 months.
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Royal Liverpool launches its GDE strategy with region-wide EPR plans
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals’ GDE strategy was launched at iLinks with the region wide EPR a key tenet of the plans.
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`Ground-breaking’ deal in Oxford sees NHS products commercialised
University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to receive an aggregate £5 million of equity in Drayson Technologies.
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Each acute GDE trust will receive £10 million – Swindells
Each acute global digital exemplar (GDE) trust will be receiving £10 million each, said Matthew Swindells of NHS England.
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