New integrated child health system goes live in Wales
The Children and Young Persons Integrated System ensures every child in Wales has an active care record, meaning clinicians have access to more information.
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Buckinghamshire selects Graphnet for county-wide shared record
The programme is being led by NHS Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and will use Graphnet’s CareCentric software to share information between Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire County Council Social Care and 51 GP practices.
Shared Records
Midlands NHS trusts merge to create major integrated care provider
South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust have merged to become Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, after receiving approval from regulators.
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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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Yorkshire and Humber commits to more integrated care
The Yorkshire and Humber Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) group has announced that it plans to deliver a “cohort of the willing” regardless of the outcome of its LHCRE bid.
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Why Netflix and Amazon might offer a glimpse at our future healthcare ecosystems
Apple’s play into the healthcare ecosystem could open up new models of healthcare delivery, the resemblance of which may not be million miles from today’s most popular digital services.
AI and Analytics
Consortium led by London CSU wins national contract to build population health dashboard
A consortium led by North East London CSU has won an NHS England contract to design and build a performance and population health management dashboard, Digital Health News has learnt.
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Orion Health develops integrated digital care record for Doncaster CCG
NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group signs contract with Orion Health to develop integrated digital care record to support older people at home.
Infrastructure
Doncaster to deploy shared care record this summer
Doncaster will deploy an integrated digital care record this summer, initially drawing on patient data from four organisations across health and social care.
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Poor information sharing barrier to NHS integration – NAO
The report, from the National Audit Office, says reticence to share information across health and social care is one three major barriers to integration.
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