The revolution will be digitised
The NHS Commissioning Board’s director of patients and information argues that digital is the biggest single answer to the productivity, quality and efficiency challenges faced by the NHS.
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Hunt wants paperless NHS in five years
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has set out a tight timetable for making all records and communications in the NHS paperless in a speech to the think-tank Policy Exchange.
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‘Grave concerns’ over new GP dataset
GPs and privacy experts have “grave concerns” about an extensive new dataset to be extracted from GP practices.
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Seven for ‘13
Ewan Davis looks back at 2012 and identifies the trends – from hackdays to open source to patient-held records – that will reshape NHS IT in 2013 and beyond.
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Paperless NHS means paperless referrals
The NHS Commissioning Board’s planning guidance, issued today, has confirmed that a “paperless NHS” means paperless referrals by 2015.
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New GP data set to assess quality
The NHS Commissioning Board will require every GP to provide a “standardised routine set of data” to help assess their quality and it will be published online.
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Can you help me, Dr Geek?
The first Digital Doctors Conference in London covered the basics of programming. Lis Evenstad found delegates enthusiastic about everything from learning HTML to generating ideas for apps.
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New patient platform to kickstart SMEs
The new customer service platform being developed by the NHS Commissioning Board will invigorate small and medium-sized enterprises by creating a “market place to beat all market places in healthcare.”
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Code it yourself?
Tim Kelsey wants clinicians to code. But the first CCIO Leaders Network Annual Conference at EHI Live 2012 debated whether this is necessary – or appropriate. Claire Read reports.
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Joe’s view: of openness
Joe undertakes a McDonald’s tour of organisational openness, via Birkenau, the Jimmy Savile scandal, and NPfIT.
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