Mental health IT ‘at best ok’ – survey
Mental health IT systems are at best “ok” according to a survey of system usability carried out by the National Mental Health Informatics Network and presented at EHI Live 2013.
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Joe’s view of telehealth for dummies
Joe’s Mam loves drinking tea. He’s taped an iPhone to her kettle. Now all he needs is an app to tell him she’s boiling it regularly, and he’ll be sure that she’s ok.
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Joe’s view of dreams
Joe McDonald knows that you and he share a dream of using IT to improve patient care. He wants you to help put the dream into words: to create a manifesto to take the CCIO Leaders Network to the next level.
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User views on EPRs to be revealed
The winners and losers from the ‘great big mental health system survey’ will be revealed at the fourth annual National Mental Health Informatics Network meeting at EHI Live 2013 in Birmingham.
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Joe’s view of pushing rocks
As chair of the CCIO Leaders Network, Joe McDonald is getting a lot of calls for clinical engagement on national projects. A better way is needed, grounded in a national clinical engagement strategy.
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Joe’s view from the school room
EHI CCIO Leaders Network chair Joe McDonald has been back to (summer) school with a lot of clever people, a lot of whom are very interested in open source.
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Joe’s view of feedback
Joe McDonald is disappointed that the latest inquiry into the Mid Staffs scandal failed to tackle the regulatory regime. Now, he argues, the NHS needs to learn from Sean the carpet fitter; a man with a keen interest in online ratings.
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Huge support for CCIOs in EPR Debate
An overwhelming 93% of respondents to The Big EPR Survey say that every NHS trust should have a chief clinical information officer.
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Joe’s view of the NHS Number
Joe’s view of the end of CfH
NHS Connecting for Health did not get a public send off as it finally ceased to exist on 1 April. Which is a shame, as Joe McDonald had his funeral oration all ready…
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