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12 March 2025

Insights: Integrated Care

The promise of integrated care is well understood: better patient outcomes, more efficient use of NHS resources and a more
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17 October 2024

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Today's Coffee Time Briefing covers funding for digital X-Ray equipment in Powys and the launch of Bupa's whole-genome sequencing programme.
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6 August 2024

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This latest Coffee Time Briefing features £8m funding for UK Biobank and an initiative to accelerate motor neurone disease research.
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4 April 2024

Roundtable: How is data sharing developing in ICSs and between organisations – and what more needs to be done?

Shared care records are increasingly valued and developed but the obstacles in the way of further progress need to be
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21 September 2023

We need strategic national direction to achieve a single, holistic view of people’s health information

Adopting PRSB’s information standard to support person-centred care planning would be a ‘pragmatic’ step in the right direction for trusts,
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20 July 2023

First ratings show west and south west England ICSs least digitally mature

Latest results on digital maturity of ICSs have shown that those in the west and south west of England are
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30 June 2023

We need a new ‘layer cake’ approach to interoperability

Providers and integrated care systems should seize the opportunity to refresh and future-proof their interoperability strategies, writes Selina Sachar from
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30 May 2023

Converge around the person, not the technology

The debate on EPR convergence needs to acknowledge the inescapable variety of the health and care landscape and put people
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17 February 2023

Special Report: Shared Care Records

Are health services which were slow to develop a shared care record now showing the way ahead? Jennifer Trueland reports
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3 November 2022

The King’s Fund interoperability report highlights relationships and technology

A report by The King’s Fund has highlighted the importance of relationships and technology for interoperability to progress in integrated
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