N3 deal given two more years
The Department of Health is set to extend its N3 contract with BT for another two years; but is starting to consult on what will replace it.
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Out of the box
No second round of ITK
There will not be a second round of interoperability tool kit projects run by the Department of Health. Instead, the DH’s Technology Office will work with trusts on interoperability on an ad hoc basis. Almost 18-months since the ITK initiative began, Paul Jones, head of the technology office, told E-Health Insider that nearly all of […]
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Call for Toolkit discharge standards
NHS Connecting for Health has invited suppliers to help develop and test standards for electronic discharge summaries in an extension to its interoperability toolkit programme.
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Toolkit to nail interoperability – Jones
The new NHS interoperability toolkit has the potential to drive down the cost of interoperability and innovation, according to the Department of Health’s chief technology officer.
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CfH stripped of key roles and reorganised
In a major shake-up of health service IT, key leadership roles are to be moved directly to the Department of Health.
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CfH technology boss says paper not fit for purpose
Connecting for Health’s chief technology officer, Paul Jones has stressed the importance of integrating standards to achieve interoperability in healthcare, saying paper is “no longer fit for purpose”. Speaking at last week’s Connecting for Health’s SNOMED CT and interoperable healthcare conference, Jones said health providers were under increased pressure to ensure the care they provide […]
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Ex-CfH CTO’s firm earns £46.3m from NPfIT
An IT consultant who worked as Chief Technology Officer of NHS Connecting for Health for three years is also the senior partner of an IT consultancy firm – ASE Consulting – that has so far earned over £46m from the NHS IT Programme in consultancy fees. E-Health Insider has learned that Alan Duncan McNeil, who […]
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New London RID appointed
Kevin Jarrold, director of information management at University College London Hospital (UCLH), has been appointed as the new regional implementation director (RID) for the London cluster. Jarrold recently managed the successful implementation of an IDX Carecast system into UCLH. He is due to join NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) in September. He will takes over […]
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