Will Smart: England to get first HIMSS 7 hospitals before year’s end
NHS England will have its first HIMSS Stage 7 hospitals by the end of 2018, Will Smart has said, as he laid out his vision to offer ‘comprehensive, longitudinal care records’ for all 55 million English citizens within the next five years.
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Commvault to deliver healthcare solutions to HPE customers
Commvault has announced a strategic partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver Commvault healthcare solutions to HPE customers.
Infrastructure
Microsoft to drive ‘intelligent health’ with new AI, cloud computing projects
Ahead of HiMSS18, Microsoft has announced a slew of projects aimed at helping global healthcare providers harness the power of artificial intelligence and the cloud.
AI and Analytics
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.
Clinical Software
Geisinger sets SMART apps on FHIR
US healthcare provider, Geisinger Health System, has unveiled an EnrG suite of interoperable software applications, able to link to multiple electronic health records, using common standards.
News
US calls out health information blockers
Health IT suppliers have been called out for blocking information flows to promote their narrow economic interests ahead of the biggest US health IT event of the year.
News
Croydon prepares to expand Cerner use
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has completed integration testing for the second phase of its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system roll-out; significantly expanding its existing system.
News
Executive focus
The chief information officer of a US hospital is a powerful figure, reporting directly to the chief executive. It wasn’t always so, explains Neil Versel, in the second of EHI’s features on senior information leaders in America.
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HIMSS UK launched
HIMSS has launched HIMSS UK after buying events management company Citadel in a move it hopes will bring an “outside perspective” to healthcare IT in the UK.
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From the Heart and Chest
EHealth Insider’s latest columnist, Dr Johan Waktare, is just months away from seeing an electronic patient record go live at his trust. But what is “an EPR” and how much “EPRedness” can an organisation take?
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