It’s big, but is it clever?
Robert Francis’ final report into the Mid Staffordshire scandal is huge, but will its impact be in proportion to its size, asks Lyn Whitfield.
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Francis calls for records and open data
Robert Francis QC has backed investment in electronic patient records and the wider publication of NHS data at the end of his inquiry into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
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PwC finds ‘even more’ IT savings
A report from consultants PriceWaterhouseCoopers has concluded that the NHS could save billions of pounds a year if “ambitious, proactive NHS organisations” improved their use of information technology.
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The answers to the quiz of the year 2012!
A small but select band got all the answers right to eHealth Insider’s annual quiz of the year. Did you do as well as they did?
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Look back, move forward
EHealth Insider asked NHS IT directors, GPs, opinion formers and a patient to look at the state of NHS IT at the end of 2012, and at what 2013 is likely to hold.
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Twenty twelve
The ‘Liberating the NHS’ reforms became law, the government issued a new NHS IT strategy, CSC’s deal for the NME was on and off an finally on again, and the ICO got cross. Lyn Whitfield looks back at 2012.
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GPs ‘must back info revolution’
We need an information revolution in the medical profession, Roger Goss told a debate on patient access to electronic records.
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Power to the people
Paul Hodgkin, the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, wonders if the NHS’s promised digital revolution will help one of the site’s recent users.
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Full details of EHI Live 2012 released
More than 50 speakers have been booked to give delegates to the conference at EHI Live 2012 the “big picture” on NHS IT, the detail on how to tackle “major works”, and insight into the disruptive power of “health 2.0”.
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EHI Live interview: Paul Hodgkin
Chris Thorne talks to the founder and chief executive of Patient Opinion, who has played an increasingly influential role in the choice and Open Data agendas.
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