Hunt predicts US-UK ‘single market’
A memorandum of understanding signed by the US and UK will help to create the world’s largest single market for health care applications, the health secretary has said.
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NHS will be dependent on EHRs – Hunt
The health service will become “totally dependent” on electronic health records over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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Insider view
On the first anniversary of health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s groundbreaking speech on NHS IT, EHI editor Jon Hoeksma asks whether the ‘paperless’ NHS needs to start a new chapter.
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CCIOs key to addressing knowledge gap
Appointing a chief clinical information officer is the best way to address the knowledge gap in NHS trusts about the clinical and cost benefits of implementing IT systems, a new survey suggests.
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What you said in 2013
The Big EPR Debate got readers commenting in 2013; but so did plans to get doctors and patients coding and the idea of using open source in the NHS.
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Target watch festive special
EHI launched ‘target watch’ to keep track of the many targets being set for NHS IT and information services. This bumper edition rounds up the occasional hits and many misses of 2013; and looks forward to 2014.
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So, farewell then, 2013
Lyn Whitfield looks back at the big events in the NHS and healthcare IT, as reflected in EHI’s weekly newsletters.
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EHI Interview: Professor Jim Davies
Rebecca Todd talks to the chief technology officer for Genomics England about why the project to link 100,000 genomes to electronic health records has been hailed as “bigger than the internet.”
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Fiddling with figures a crime
It will become a criminal offence for NHS care providers and senior managers to submit misleading data, under plans released by the government in response to the Francis Inquiry.
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Colchester put into special measures
Monitor has put Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, which is facing a data scandal related to cancer waiting times, into special measures.
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