The vision thing
Adrian Byrne considers the impact of health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s call for a ‘paperless’ NHS. Is it clear what it is meant to be achieved? And will it be worth achieving?
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Health CIO profile: Mark Dundon
Mark Dundon, former chief information officer at Plusnet, tells Paul Curran why he moved into healthcare, and his hopes for his commissioning support unit.
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TRUE blue
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is starting to realise the benefits of its ‘big bang’ implementation of Cerner Millennium, Sam Sachdeva heard on a Health CIO summer school visit.
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Health CIO profile: Joanna Smith
The chief information officer of Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust arrived from global pharma with a remit to transform its IT operations. Sam Sachdeva talks to her.
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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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Health CIO profile: Kate Warriner
The deputy director of Informatics Merseyside was studying music when she was bitten by the health bug. Lis Evenstad talked to her as she launched a major information sharing strategy.
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Health CIO profile: James Thomas
The ICT director at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust started his career in maps but now makes bit use of apps. He tells Sam Sachdeva about his role at a truly “innovative” organisation.
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Health CIO profile: Christine Walters
The director of IM&T at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust loves her job; even though she started her career in a very different sector. She talks to Lis Evenstad.
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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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