Kelsey hails breakthrough for care.data
Tim Kelsey, the national director of patients and information, has claimed a breakthrough in linking-up data flows between secondary and primary care.
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All change, please
At midnight, the latest reorganisation of the NHS finally took effect. Lyn Whitfield outlines the changes and their impact on NHS IT.
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Another view
Tim Kelsey’s suggestion that clinicians and even patients should code has met with derision. GP Neil Paul thinks it should be encouraged.
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Ten more apps for NHS apps library
The first iteration of the new Health Apps Library was launched this week at the NHS Innovation Expo 2013.
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Patient coding with a twist
Patients will be taught how to code and make apps as part of a patient empowerment programme being run by the NHS Commissioning Board.
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Trusts could lose contracts without EPR
The NHS Commissioning Board is drawing up plans designed to dramatically accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records by NHS hospital trusts.
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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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CB seeks ‘exemplar of interoperability’
The NHS Commissioning Board is looking for a health economy to become an “exemplar of interoperability” for the rest of the country by mid-2015.
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Directors of information for regions
Hospitals to have e-records by 2014
NHS hospitals will need to have operational electronic patient records working by April 2014 to meet the data flow requirements set by the NHS Commissioning Board and as a milestone towards making the NHS paperless by 2018.
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