IT could save NHS £13.7bn a year: Kelsey
The use of digital technology can save the NHS in England up to £13.7 billion a year by 2020, according to Tim Kelsey, national director for patents and information.
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The 12 months of 2014
Twenty fourteen was a year of waiting: for a financial crisis, and a plan to avert one; for tech funds and the IT strategy to support them. Fortunately, things happened in the meantime. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Northumbria issues framework tender
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has released a framework tender for a range of clinical systems that it says could be worth up to £200 million.
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Liverpool Women’s rises to top of CDMI
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has joined three other acute NHS trusts at the top of the pile in EHI Intelligence’s Clinical Digital Maturity Index, for which a new website was launched today.
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The man with the plan
Simon Stevens has issued his ‘Five Year Forward View’ for the NHS. Lyn Whitfield looks at a report that tries to finish the work that Wanless started; not least when it comes to IT.
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Royal Orthopaedic tenders for portal
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has gone out to tender for a clinical portal to support its best of breed strategy towards a full electronic patient record system.
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Hits and misses
A year ago, EHI launched ‘target watch’ to keep an eye on the many initiatives being launched in NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield rounds up progress – and the lack of it.
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ progresses e-noting
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust says it is planning to start a full roll-out of its e-noting project by the end of the year.
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Princess Alexandra live with Cosmic EPR
Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has become the first UK trust to deploy the Cosmic electronic patient record system from Cambio.
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Open source survey launched
The second edition of a survey about open source within the NHS will help to measure how attitudes towards its use are changing, according to its creator.
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