Digital Child Health Hub proposed
NHS England wants to create a Digital Child Health Hub to bring together information on a child’s health from multiple systems.
Interoperability
Details of £1.8b tech funding revealed
NHS organisations will have access to £1 billion in capital funding and £400 million in revenue to help them become paperless over the next five years.
Clinical Software
Kingsley Manning resigns as HSCIC chair
Kingsley Manning has resigned as chair of the Health and Social Care Information Centre after three years in the role.
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Local digital roadmaps delayed
Clinical commissioning groups now have until June to submit their Local Digital Roadmaps after NHS England pushed back the submission date.
Interoperability
IT funds to come from transformation pot
NHS England has indicated that it wants to stop running tech funds and to start allocating money to IT from a wider Sustainability and Transformation Fund linked to new, five year Sustainability and Transformation Plans.
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Child health digital strategy promised
NHS England wants to create a single view of a child’s health record, available online to healthcare professionals and accessible to patients and carers.
Digital Patient
Sixteen healthcare IT predictions for 2016
What are the themes that will shape healthcare IT over the coming year? Digital Health News asked some well known national figures, information governance experts, and suppliers for their ideas.
Feature
GP ‘detailed coded record’ info revealed
GPs must offer patients access to their ‘detailed coded record’ by the end of March next year; and NHS England has now released guidance explaining what this will mean.
Digital Patient
89 footprints on NHS digital plan
NHS England has received 89 ‘footprints’ from local healthcare economies working to develop roadmaps for the future of their digital health services.
Interoperability
Cerner exec moves to NHS England
NHS England has appointed Cerner’s managing director for population health as the new national director for commissioning operations and information.
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