Focus on integration for ‘tech fund 2’
The second rounds the NHS’ two technology funds are due to be “promoted and launched” over the next two months and will focus on integration.
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Tech fund trusts still waiting
A significant number of trusts are still awaiting Treasury approval for their technology fund projects despite some of the money having to be spent within a month.
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Birmingham spends £7m on paediatric EPR
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will use £3.3m from the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ to create a paediatric e-prescribing system as part of its electronic patient record project.
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Tech fund money claimed retrospectively
NHS trusts can claim funding from the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ for money spent on their projects since April last year.
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Tech fund money released this week
The first release of money from the £260m ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ is expected this week.
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Three IDCR exemplars named
NHS England has announced the three exemplars in digital care record integration, and confirmed that the next round of the Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund will focus on integrated care.
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Insider view
On the first anniversary of health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s groundbreaking speech on NHS IT, EHI editor Jon Hoeksma asks whether the ‘paperless’ NHS needs to start a new chapter.
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Target watch festive special
EHI launched ‘target watch’ to keep track of the many targets being set for NHS IT and information services. This bumper edition rounds up the occasional hits and many misses of 2013; and looks forward to 2014.
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Fourteen predictions for 2014
EHI asked a wide range of healthcare IT experts to look ahead to 2014 – in 140 characters or fewer. They picked policy change, tech fund success, and the demise of the onsie as issues to watch…
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So, farewell then, 2013
Lyn Whitfield looks back at the big events in the NHS and healthcare IT, as reflected in EHI’s weekly newsletters.
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