NHS Digital Academy to train 300 CCIOs and CIOs
NHS England is hoping to train 300 NHS staff to become “digital leaders” by 2021 by running them through 12-month training course.
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NHS England working with internet giants to promote digital tools
NHS England is working with Google, Bing and Apple to promote and increase the visibility of NHS.uk, NHS Choices and the much anticipated NHS App Library.
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NHS app library to be launched this month
The long awaited NHS app library will be live by the end of March, according to NHS England digital lead at the Digital Health Technology Show in London.
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Concerns grow over missing £100m NHS digital exemplar funds
Concerns are growing over a missing £100m NHS global digital exemplar funds, promised to 16 leading NHS digital hospital trusts.
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Open innovation exemplar fund gets 48 bids
An independent campaign to develop a new open digital platform for health and care has received 48 open innovation exemplar bids from across the UK and Ireland, totaling more than £60m. The campaign group is now calling on NHS England to commit, £40m, equivalenat to one per cent of national NHS IT investment, to […]
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New central IT requirements for personal health budgets and integrated personal commissioning
NHS England is concerned about the “varying quality” of IT supporting the roll-out of personal health budgets and integrated personal commissioning.
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Twenty NHS digital fast follower trusts to get £5m each
NHS England plans to fund 20 “fast follower” trusts to become digital advanced in the next three years, using blueprints laid out by the 16 digital exemplar trusts.
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Jam tomorrow for the NHS Digital JAMs
The JAMs was a term coined to describe squeezed middle income families, struggling to get by. Cloud2 director Simon Hudson argues that the large number of NHS ‘digital JAMs’, threatens to undermine wider integration plans demanded by STPs.
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Move to implement patient ‘data lake’ scheme
After meeting with NHS data experts and tech companies, NHS England chief information officer Will Smart wants to push on with a new patient data collection scheme.
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Global digital exemplars waiting on central cash
Many of the 12 hospital global digital exemplars expected to be pushing on with plans to digitally transform by now, but NHS England has yet to release the purse strings.
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