Back to school
Chief clinical information officers held their second annual summer school in Cambridge last week. Sam Sachdeva asked Joe McDonald and Jon Hoeksma what went on; and found a new spirit of openness and trust had been in the air.
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School’s in for summer
Sam Sachdeva talks to Daniel Ray and Jon Hoeksma about the Health CIO Network’s inaugural summer school in Oxford and what happens next.
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Health CIO profile: Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas believes his early training as an engineer equipped him for his role as director of health informatics at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. He explains to Paul Curran.
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Rotherham’s revival
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons after an IT implementation went awry. But the trust is back on track – and a wiser place too, Linda Davidson discovers.
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Call the nurse?
The drive to appoint chief nursing information officers to US healthcare systems is stuttering; and CNIOs can end up doing a different job to their medical counterparts. Neil Versel reports.
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Executive focus
The chief information officer of a US hospital is a powerful figure, reporting directly to the chief executive. It wasn’t always so, explains Neil Versel, in the second of EHI’s features on senior information leaders in America.
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Health CIO profile: James Thomas
The ICT director at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust started his career in maps but now makes bit use of apps. He tells Sam Sachdeva about his role at a truly “innovative” organisation.
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Clinical informatics: in the US, it’s certifiable
Neil Versel starts a short series about the advances made by US clinical information leaders by reporting on the first doctors to achieve board certification as subspecialists in clinical informatics, after a decade’s worth of lobbying.
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Health CIOs urged to pick out brown M&Ms
EHI editor Jon Hoeksma hears US business guru Chip Heath deliver some invaluable advice on making better decisions ahead of HIMSS14.
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Cisco backs new Health CIO Network
Cisco has been announced as the first sponsor of EHI’s newly created Health CIO Network, which has already attracted the support of four regional groups.
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