The Big EPR Debate: round table
With just a few days left to influence the NHS England guidance that will shape the latest bid to digitise the health service, The Big EPR Debate round table focused on money and practicalities. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Greenfield building site
North Bristol NHS Trust’s big, new hospital needs a sophisticated, modern IT system to help run it. EHI reporter Rebecca Todd donned a hard hat to learn more about its paper-lite ambitions.
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Hunt sells UK as global health tech hub
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is selling the UK as a “global hub of health technology” at the Health Datapalooza conference in Washington today.
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EHI Intelligence details ‘Routes to EPR’
EHI Intelligence has published detailed research on the strategies that NHS trusts are following to develop electronic patient records.
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Take part in The Big EPR Survey
As part of its The Big EPR Debate, EHI is launching a survey looking at the building blocks of an electronic patient record and the best way to get them in place.
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The Big EPR Debate: the first 100 comments
The Big EPR Debate has triggered a lively discussion on how to make progress on electronic patient records in England. Lyn Whitfield rounds up the themes of the first 100 or so responses.
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NHS should ‘look to lastminute.com’
Trade body Intellect has urged the NHS to learn from the private sector when it comes to building a new digital architecture to meet the ‘paperless’ challenge.
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The Big EPR Debate begins
The NHS is being urged to adopt electronic patient records as the foundation for going paperless. EHI editor Jon Hoeksma says it’s time for EHI readers to define EPRs and how to achieve them; to avoid past mistakes.
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Take part in The Big EPR Debate
The NHS is once more being urged to implement electronic patient records as the foundation for paperless working – and it’s time for EHI readers to shape the way forward.
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NHS should learn from Veterans Health
The NHS should swap digital health ideas with the US Veterans Health Administration in order to achieve a paperless NHS, says a report by 2020health.
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