Dr Robert Wachter says productivity benefits of health IT are still to come
The vast US healthcare industry is slowly seeing the benefits of a decade of investment in IT systems, but much remains to be done before it achieves the full productivity benefits of digitisation.
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NHS digital leaders explore GDE plans
The breadth and variety of global digital exemplar plans, presented by leading NHS trusts, were highlighted at the second Digital Health Leadership Summit.
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Twenty NHS digital fast follower trusts to get £5m each
NHS England plans to fund 20 “fast follower” trusts to become digital advanced in the next three years, using blueprints laid out by the 16 digital exemplar trusts.
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Predictions for the year ahead: healthcare IT suppliers on 2017
In the first piece of a two part look ahead at 2017, Digital Health News asked some leading healthcare IT suppliers for their predictions for the year to come.
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Digital Health’s review of the year, 2016
People and policies came and went at the top of healthcare IT, but some trusts pushed on with major projects and news emerged of tech developments that might shape the years ahead. Lyn Whitfield reviews 2016.
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Enter the CCG: more thoughts on what hospitals can learn from primary care IT
With the publication of the Wachter Review, Dr John Lockley has been thinking about what secondary care could learn from primary care’s experience of digitisation. This month: what gets clinicians engaged.
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University College London Hospitals set for Epic adventure
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has picked Epic as the preferred supplier of a new electronic patient record.
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NHS Digital Academy ‘will be virtual organisation’
The new NHS Digital Academy will be a virtual organisation that will make use of existing assets and infrastructure, Harpreet Sood from NHS England has said.
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Everybody will benefit from exemplars – McNeil
The NHS’ chief clinical information officer has launched a spirited defence of the controversial exemplars programme.
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What now for the Wachter have-nots?
Jon Hoeksma, the chief executive and editor of Digital Health, asks what will happen to the NHS providers frozen out of the digital ‘ivy league’ and puts forward some ideas for alternative exemplar programmes.
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