DH to stay with new public health arm
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has quietly dropped his pre-election pledge to rename the Department of Health the Department of Public Health.
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Making patient control the goal
Patient control of records is the government’s stated goal. Fiona Barr teases out the challenges ahead.
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Nicholson tells NHS doubters to go
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has said that NHS staff who do not support the changes in the white paper should leave the health service now.
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Connelly says patients will have control
The NHS director general of informatics has confirmed that the government plans to provide patients with the ability to ‘control’ who can access to their electronic records, rather than views or summaries.
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Connelly: NHS must look beyond NPfIT
The Department of Health’s director general for informatics says that it is time to think beyond the national programme, or risk being held prisoner by it.
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NHS PHR HealthSpace fails to deliver
Patients have found the government’s personal health record project HealthSpace neither useful nor easy to use and only a tiny percentage have so far signed up for it, according to a study published today.
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Dr Foster Intelligence to be sold
Dr Foster Intelligence, the provider of information, analysis and communications to health and social care organisations, is to be sold.
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Live issues
There were plenty of unanswered questions for primary care IT by the end of EHI Live 2010. But delegates did get some practical glimpses of the way ahead. Fiona Barr reports.
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Sollis brings Clarity to commissioners
Data analysis specialist Sollis has integrated risk stratification and predictive modelling software into its Clarity product suite.
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Connelly: NHS IT to ‘evolve’
The Department of Health will take a “pragmatic approach” to the procurement of IT systems big and small, Christine Connelly told the final session at eHealth Insider Live 2010.
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