Digital Health Unplugged: Collaboration between suppliers
The latest Digital Health Unplugged looks at the importance of collaboration between suppliers and the benefits it brings the digital health market.
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Solving interoperability is not ‘a technical problem, it’s a social problem’
Solving interoperability is not “a technical problem, it’s a social problem”, the co-chair of INTEROPen, David Hancockk, has told Digital Health News.
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‘Late and incomplete’ definitions from NHS stifling interoperability
David Hancock said interoperability is “nowhere near” where it needed to be, highlighting “late and incomplete” standards definitions from the NHS.
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INTEROPen turns to members for funding as NHS Digital pulls back
INTEROPen said independence from central bodies would put it in a stronger position to solve the interoperability priorities of the NHS and social care.
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NHS Digital to appoint ‘Robin Hood of data’ as interim chief medical officer
Digital Health News understands that NHS Digital is set to appoint co-founder and co-chair of the INTEROPen standards group, Dr Amir Mehrkar.
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INTEROPen at Alder Hey event sparks discussion on sharing patient data
More than 130 people attended the Share2Care event, including 20 NHS suppliers and representatives of 15 trusts from all over the country.
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Special Report: Interoperability
The new secretary of state for health and social care has placed interoperability at the heart of his vision for the NHS. So is the long-standing nut of information sharing between systems about to be cracked? Jennifer Trueland investigates.
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FHIR spreads to Bristol as Connecting Care embraces open standard
Bristol City Council is using a Care Connect FHIR API to link its substance abuse management system with the city’s shared care record programme.
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Updated Newcastle Declaration to ‘bake in’ interoperability
The CCIO Network, the national best practice community of NHS clinical informatics leaders, has updated its 2015 Newcastle Declaration on interoperability in response to feedback from the health and social care specialist group of the trade body techUK.
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INTEROpen supplier group launched to promote open standards
A supplier-led interoperability group has been launched to promote the exchange of data across healthcare through the adoption of open standards.
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