HSCIC green lights Lorenzo
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust has been given the go-ahead to purchase Lorenzo by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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Outsourcing explored for NHS Choices
NHS England is looking to outsource the provision of the “daughter of NHS Choices” beyond April 2014.
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Senior task force working on IG
A high-level task force at NHS England is working on solutions to information governance issues that are stopping commissioners from accessing patient confidential data.
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EHI interview: Kingsley Manning
The new chair of the new Health and Social Care Information Centre talks to Jon Hoeksma about its ambition to be “the NICE of data” – and its role handling NHS Connecting for Health’s mixed inheritance.
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Standards for EPRs launched
A new set of standards for the content and structure of electronic patient records has been launched at the Royal College of Physicians.
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Open standards key to integrated care
Open standards are key to achieving the government’s aim of integrated digital care records by 2018, says IHE’s UK chair.
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NPfIT puts reputations at risk
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is concerned that its reputation is “at risk” after the Public Accounts Committee grilled officials on NPfIT last month.
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SCR to be expanded
Patients’ end-of-life care information, immunisations, and significant past problems and procedures will be added to the NHS Summary Care Record.
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Social care data in HSCIC sights
The Health and Social Care Information Centre is looking at automating extractions of adult social care data from council IT systems and linking it with other healthcare data.
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New GP payment service going live
A new service for calculating payments for GP practices goes live across England this Thursday.
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