3millionlives concordat signed
The Department of Health formally launched its 3millionlives campaign on the day that the 2020 Health think-tank urged the NHS to learn from the telehealth experience of the US Veterans Health Administration.
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DHID and Intellect issue ‘plan of works’
The Department of Health’s Informatics Directorate and Intellect have issued a ‘plan of works’ to help create a ‘vibrant’ healthcare IT market place.
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NHS ‘lacks skills’ for info revolution
Intellect has argued that the National Programme for IT in the NHS may have left some trusts without the skills needed to deliver the transformation required by the government’s Information Revolution.
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Intellect: ‘cuts mean IT investment’
The chair of Intellect’s Health Group, Jeremy Nettle, has told E-Health Insider he expects increased investment in health IT in response to the £20 billion of efficiency savings that need to be made by the NHS.
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Four in ten readers expect cuts
Four out of ten NHS IT staff are expecting their budgets to decrease next year, and a further 36% expect them to be frozen at this year’s level.
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Toolkit to nail interoperability – Jones
The new NHS interoperability toolkit has the potential to drive down the cost of interoperability and innovation, according to the Department of Health’s chief technology officer.
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Intellect calls for more IT in diabetes care
The trade association Intellect has expressed disappointment that the Department of Health’s latest policy statement on diabetes fails to give a role to telehealth and telecare. The DH issued a five-year update on its National Service Framework for diabetes care last week, and argued that it had made significant strides in identifying people at risk […]
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LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review
The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.
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CfH awards 61 ASCC clinical contracts
Connecting for Health has awarded the eagerly anticipated Additional Supply Capability and Capacity framework contracts for clinical information systems.
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