National exemplars should include non-acute – Gordon
The next round the “exemplars” should be expanded to include non-acute trusts, the chairman of NHS Digital says.
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Beyond Wachter: 1% for the 99%
Ewan Davis and Tony Shannon say there is a lot to like about the Wachter Review, but also some worrying gaps. They call for an open platform and a challenge fund to secure digital transformation for all, and not just Hunt’s Ivy League.
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‘Is the NHS going to be Ubered?’ – DH digital head
The government is hoping to bring digitally disruptive services in-house through its revamped NHS.uk website.
Digital Patient
Plan needed amid ‘confusing’ funding for a digital NHS
The government’s plan to digitally transform the NHS is at risk of losing credibility as plans and funding remain “confusing”, The King’s Fund has warned.
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Expo 2016: What you need to know
The 2016 Health and Social Care Innovation Expo wasn’t short on new policies, big reveals, and fancy tech. Ben Heather examines what we learned at the big event and what questions remain.
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Exemplars programme prompts mixed response
Reaction to the news that NHS trusts are to be split into global exemplars, national exemplars and others has been mixed. Digital Health News rounds up responses.
Clinical Software
Hunt: IT funds will support ‘Ivy league’ of exemplar trusts
In response to the Wachter review of NHS IT, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced there will be two waves of ‘global’ and ‘national’ digital exemplars, forming an ‘Ivy league’ with the side effect of excluding half of trusts from pre-2020 funding.
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Wachter: strategic investment in clinical leaders is vital
The much-anticipated review of NHS IT by US ‘digital doctor’ Robert Wachter says a significant proportion of healthcare IT funding needs to go on training and supporting chief clinical infromation officers. Jon Hoeksma reports.
CCIO Network
Wachter calls for extension to paperless 2020 target
Dr Robert Wachter has said the “unrealistic” paperless 2020 goal should be discarded in his long-awaiting review into the digital future of the NHS, which also calls for more national funding for IT, and a further push on clinical engagement.
CCIO Network
Hunt reveals instant patient record and excellence centres
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt unveiled plans to “fast track digital excellence” today, including a further round of digital excellence centres and “instant access” to a personal online health record.
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