24 March 2016

Colin and Clive talk 20 years of EPRs

Colin Sweeney and Clive Stringer have 55 years’ combined experience working in NHS IT. Both recently retired from their full-time
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18 March 2016

Healthcare IT industry news in brief

This week’s industry round up features a new deal for Emis Health, a link-up between System C and an electronic
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17 March 2016

Legal view: of thinking small on procurement

Andrew Rankin and Carole Poletti of DAC Beachcroft consider how public procurement rules can help to create opportunities for small
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15 March 2016

Ade Memoire: feeling appathetic

In one of his occasional columns, Adrian Byrne, Southampton’s director of IT and chair of the Health CIO Network, considers
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8 March 2016

Letter from HIMSS16

Dr Shaun O’Hanlon, the chief medical officer of Emis Group, was in Las Vegas last week for HIMSS16. In this
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8 March 2016

Another view: of IT check-ups

GP Neil Paul has been carrying out IT health-checks for local practices; and has discovered that they need help and
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8 March 2016

Enter the CCG: on IG, security, and the fear of being shot

Dr John Lockley chaired a conference on the vexed and difficult questions of information governance and cyber-security; and found that
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3 March 2016

Leadership summit: full steam ahead?

The first Digital Health Leadership Summit heard the government wants to create the ‘railroad’ over which local IT services can
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3 March 2016

‘Stars are aligned’ for health IT – Freeman

Health ministers are “completely behind” the digitisation of health and social care because “it is urgent for personal care, it
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3 March 2016

Joe’s view of lava lamps (and the Great North Care Record)

Joe McDonald says the NHS is like a lava lamp: constantly changing in response to political heat. But healthcare economies
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