BT launches US health cloud with UK data
BT has launched a health cloud holding aggregated population-level data on 50m NHS patients in collaboration with MedRed in the United States.
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Turning the ship
EHI brought a group of US information leaders to the second CCIO Leaders Network Annual Conference, and they told their fledgling UK colleagues that they must be willing to stand up and say ‘stop’ and ‘turn back’ when necessary. Claire Read reports.
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Levin warns on NHS open source approach
The former chief technology officer of the US Department of Veterans Affairs has warned that NHS England’s bid to bring open source to the health service will fail without a central authority to drive it.
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NHS England wants open source option
NHS England wants an open source electronic patient record system to be an option for NHS trusts, “if they want it”.
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Common standards for US-UK tech services
The UK and US are working on common standards for technology services that will help UK health IT companies expand into the US market, NHS England’s director of patients and information has revealed.
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Meaningful use ‘absolutely essential’, Mostashari tells EHI
Dr Farzad Mostashari, US national health IT coordinator, says incentives tied to meaningful use standards have been ‘absolutely essential’ to the dramatic acceleration in its use of electronic health records.
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Push me, pull you
Claire Read talks to the chief medical information officer and chief nursing information officer of a US healthcare provider; and finds they bring different but complimentary approaches to their roles.
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IT’s a Mercy
Dr Andrew Cha has never been able to avoid being a clinical information leader – even when he has tried. Claire Read talks to the chief medical information officer at Mercy Hospital and Medical Centre.
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EHRs fail to achieve savings – US study
A lack of interoperability and usability among electronic health record systems means the billions of dollars of expected savings have not been realised from their implementaton, a US report says.
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US finds winning cancer apps
Developers in the US have created mobile applications which make use of public data to help detect, prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.
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