Health Secretary announces digital initiatives for NHS productivity
Secretary of State Victoria Atkins has renewed promises to digitise every hospital and extend use of the NHS app to help patients.
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Spring Budget includes £3.4billion extra investment in NHS digitisation
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced £3.4 billion of new investment in NHS digitisation in the Spring Budget.
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BT roundtable: standards, incentives key to improved digital performance
Coordination, consistency and an improved incentive structure are needed for digital transformation of the health service, a BT-sponsored roundtable heard.
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Majority of NHS staff see tech investments as priority – BT survey
74% of NHS staff see future investments in digital technology as a priority, according to the results of a BT survey released Tuesday.
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NHS signs new Microsoft deal worth three-quarters of a billion pounds
NHS England has announced a new £774m licensing deal for Microsoft productivity apps and products including Office365 and Teams for 1.5m NHS staff.
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Milton Keynes University Hospital to pilot smart hospital solution
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is to pilot a smart hospital solution which aims to improve productivity and efficiency.
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Technology is the answer to the healthcare productivity challenge
As healthcare spending rises, Jonathan Pearson, UK head of healthcare at PA Consulting, looks at why technology could help improve productivity in the NHS.
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Carter: NHS to adopt ‘meaningful use’
NHS Improvement should create ‘meaningful use’ standards for clinical IT systems and use incentives to drive better adoption of technology, Lord Carter’s review of hospital productivity recommends.
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Swindells: ‘fight on’ for informaticians
The chair of BCS Healthcare, Matthew Swindells, has told a conference in Glasgow that the challenge for NHS informaticians “has never been greater.”
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Funding forecast is colder than ever
The NHS would have to make historically unprecedented productivity gains to close the gap between its likely funding after 2011 and the Wanless projections of its future spending needs. According to a report by the King’s Fund and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the health service would need to make gains of between 3.4% and […]
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