3 per cent of patients have EPR access
Fewer than 3% of patients have access to their GP medical records online, according to figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre’s indicator portal.
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Doncaster invests in infrastructure
Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust is working with US company Brocade on a new network infrastructure to support the replacement of two core clinical systems.
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‘Step-up’ the paperless drive – TechUK
TechUK says a “step-up” in activity is needed if the NHS is to meet health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s target of becoming paperless by 2018.
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EHI Intelligence forecasts IT growth
NHS spending on IT will increase over the next five years in response to pressures on the health service, and English trust spending will reach £1.6 billion by 2016-17, an EHI Intelligence report has found.
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CCIOs key to addressing knowledge gap
Appointing a chief clinical information officer is the best way to address the knowledge gap in NHS trusts about the clinical and cost benefits of implementing IT systems, a new survey suggests.
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From the Heart and Chest
Johan Waktare has put some money behind his New Year resolutions. But often, a simple commitment to doing something different is all that is needed to achieve a big change.
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PAC doubts DH can deliver paperless NHS
The Department of Health has come in for stinging criticism for the way it handled NPfIT contracts from Parliament’s spending watchdog, which has also cast doubt on its ability to deliver a ‘paperless’ NHS by 2018.
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760 applications to Tech Fund
The government’s new Technology Fund has attracted more than 760 expressions of interest from trusts applying for more than £650m.
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Dates with destiny
The NHS has been set so many IT and information targets over the past couple of years that EHI is about to launch a ‘target watch’ to keep track of them. Lyn Whitfield looks at some of the key goals for the acute sector.
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Government to mandate NHS digitisation
The government wants to mandate NHS England to support the health service to go digital by 2018.
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