Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
Our latest roundup of contracts and go lives in the world of healthcare IT features news from Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT and a Derbyshire ICS.
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Derbyshire ICS signs 10-year shared records deal with Orion Health
The deal with Orion Health aims give staff working across Joined Up Care Derbyshire access to information held in existing systems by March.
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Government announces plans to reform NHS for more joined up care
The NHS reform will “modernise the legal framework” to make the health system “fit for the future”, according to a government statement.
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Three trusts within Dorset ICS to deploy CliniSys laboratory info system
Three acute trusts within the Dorset Integrated Care System (ICS) are to deploy a single laboratory information system (LIMS) from CliniSys.
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ICSs ‘must consider how to attract sustainable supply of future leaders’
There’s no “inexhaustible pipeline” of leaders working within ICSs and more needs to be done to attract younger leaders, a King’s Fund report found.
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NHS will have to pay price on technical debt says NHSX associate CIO
Speaking a conference in York on 7 November, Rob Parker also spoke about the new digital plans integrated care systems (ICSs) will be expected to draw up.
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NHSE to create ‘innovation greenhouse’ to accelerate uptake of technology
The innovation greenhouse will provide integrated care systems (ICS) with easier access to “tried and tested innovations”, according to NHSE papers.
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Innovation can be new approaches not just ‘shiny new devices’
Speaking at the Digital Health Care Show, Henry Ireland, an innovation advisor, gave the audience his four tips to drive change in the healthcare sector.
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Mark Jones appointed CIO of North Cumbria Health and Care ICS
The former CIO of Devon Partnership NHS Trust has been drafted in to head up digital strategy for the integrated care system in north-west England.
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Four new integrated care systems announced by NHS England
Gloucestershire, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, Suffolk and North East Essex and North Cumbria are to join NHS England’s integrated care development programme, the organisation has announced.
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