Leadership summit: full steam ahead?
The first Digital Health Leadership Summit heard the government wants to create the ‘railroad’ over which local IT services can run; but it will be for trusts and commissioners to create them. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Wachter focuses on CCIOs
Dr Robert Wachter’s review of the digital future of the NHS will focus on issues of clinical engagement with IT implementations, particularly the role of chief clinical information officers.
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Hunt announces £4.2 billion for NHS IT
The government will spend £4.2 billion on NHS technology over the next five years, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
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£1B question answered “shortly”: Freeman
EXCLUSIVE: Details of how the government will invest more than £1 billion on digitising the NHS over the next five years will be announced shortly, minister for life sciences George Freeman has said.
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Sixteen tasks for NHS England in 2016
Beverley Bryant, NHS England’s director of digital technology, has laid out a busy schedule for the start of the New Year.
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Hunt: tech money to go on free NHS wi-fi
Free wi-fi will be available across all NHS buildings in England as part of the government’s commitment to a paperless health service by 2020, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
Infrastructure
Digital doctor to review NHS tech
Dr Robert Wachter, US celebrity author of ‘The Digital Doctor’, will lead a review into the digital future of the NHS, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
Infrastructure
Care.data on hold again
Controversial patient data collection programme care.data has been put on hold again while a review of the opt-out model is completed.
AI and Analytics
HSCIC launches cyber security service
A new NHS cyber security service – CareCERT – will be up and running by January 2016, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has announced.
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Hunt pushes on intelligent transparency
A quarter of smartphone users will be accessing their medical records by 2018, CCGs will be publishing new ratings, and the NHS will have taken further steps to restore public confidence in data and security, the health secretary has promised.
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