Open source to be big tech fund 2 winner
Open source projects will likely be the stand-out winners of NHS England’s tech fund 2 awards, EHI News has learned.
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£240m tech fund 2 raided by Treasury
NHS England’s £240m technology fund has been raided by the Treasury to help meet A&E pressures in the run up to the general election.
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No news is not good news
The silence on the outcome of bids to tech fund 2 is deafening. That is causing disillusion and putting projects in jeopardy, according to a survey run by EHI. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Tech fund 2 delay puts projects at risk
The continued delay in the announcement of who has won money from the second round of the technology fund is putting projects at risk, according to a survey run by EHI.
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15 predictions for 2015
There will be a general election, debate about the future of the NHS, discussion about the role of IT, and conversations about open source and confidentiality. Sam Sachdeva asks 15 experts to look over another busy year.
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NHS England promotes IT in ‘to do’ list
NHS England has urged clinical commissioning groups to start working on ‘roadmaps’ for integrated digital care records, given them sticks to force use of national systems and standards, and promised IT ‘test beds’ in its annual planning guidance.
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NHSmail SMS funding extended for GPs
NHS England has extended central funding of email-to-SMS services for primary care organisations using NHSmail, after the DH caused an outcry by announcing plans to cut funding from next March.
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NHS England names 100K genome centres
NHS England has named the eleven centres across the country that will drive efforts to sequence 100,000 genomes by 2017.
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Fifth of patients have records access
NHS England has reported a big jump in the proportion of patients who are able to access their GP records online.
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Care.data review due in early 2015
An independent review on the first stage of the controversial care.data programme will be released in early 2015, as a new parliamentary report criticises its “lack of clarity and publicity”.
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