Sharing the pain
Legal issues, information governance, patient consent; the barriers to information sharing are legion. Good job CCIOs are committed to getting through them. Claire Read reports.
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Leeds takes EPMA from CSC
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £1.8m contract with CSC for its Medchart electronic prescribing and medicines administration system.
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Health CIO profile: Eileen Jessop
The deputy director of informatics at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust talks to Sam Sachdeva about her career, its electronic patient record plans, and the trust’s role in a changing NHS.
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Leeds CCG seeks feedback on GPs via text
NHS Leeds West Clinical Commissioning Group is piloting a Friends and Family Test feedback text messaging system.
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Rising star: Samantha Robinson
In the first of a series of interviews with the “rising stars” of NHS IT, Lis Evenstad talks to Samantha Robinson, who is helping Leeds’ acute trust through an ambitious transformation programme.
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One week left to make bids to Tech Fund
NHS trusts have expressed concern that there is not enough time to complete applications to the £260m Technology Fund, with just a week to the deadline.
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Leeds puts bones on Map of Medicine
Three Leeds clinical commissioning groups are aiming to improve the quality of musculoskeletal referrals by adding local pathways to the Map of Medicine.
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Yorkshire e-consultation scheme extended
An e-consultation system that helps specialists to decide whether GPs should refer a patient for hospital care is being extended.
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