Getting interoperability right; myths, opportunity, and ugly acronyms
NHS leaders have never been more enthusiastic about open APIs and their potential to break down silos. However, connecting IT systems isn’t quite as simple as handing over the keys, as EMIS Health’s Chief Medical Officer Shaun O’Hanlon explains.
CCIO Network
Building your business case for Single Sign-on and Authentication
Introducing new systems, technology and ways of working can be fraught with uncertainty. Imprivata’s benefits realisation study is a process run before a major implementation to make sure it will deliver the benefits required.
Health CIO
Dealing with incident overload: learning to prioritise investigations
James Titcombe, patient safety specialist at Datix, says embedding a safety culture can be challenging, and discusses how to deal with one common obstacle – incident overload.
AI and Analytics
Fighting sepsis, saving lives
September is sepsis awareness month. This white paper outlines how technology can help to spot sepsis, and how Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is leading the deployment of Cerner’s St. John Sepsis Agent in the UK.
Clinical Software
An organisation with a memory: what needs to change?
James Titcombe OBE, Patient Safety Specialist at Datix and patient safety campaigner, looks at some of the key issues involved with a continued excellence in care. Here we discuss Sir Liam Donaldson’s seminal 2000 report ‘An organisation with a memory’.
AI and Analytics
A digital strategy for connected health and care
Cisco believes that digital transformation is critical to building a sustainable health and care system. In these business and technical white papers, it explains how digital technology needs to be central to business planning.
Infrastructure
Big data in healthcare – hype or hope?
Big data is transforming many industries. But how is it relevant in healthcare? This white paper from The Learning Clinic argues that healthcare is fast becoming a big data industry, as it looks to tackle the burden of chronic disease.
Clinical Software
Successful mobile working in community healthcare
This white paper from Bittium sets out the case for mobile working in community healthcare, and discusses the technical issues that need to be addressed to make projects a success.
Infrastructure
OpenCB from Dell and Cambridge University
This white paper looks at development work being undertaken in Cambridge to create a new omics analysis hardware and software platform – using the open source software framework OpenCB and new, high performance hardware from Dell and Intel.
AI and Analytics
Connelly outlines NHS info ‘revolution’
The NHS’ director general of informatics, Christine Connelly, has outlined an information revolution to match the root and branch reform of the health service promised by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government.
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