
Opinion


Adding a bit of lippy
Dr Susan Hamer and Anne Cooper were the winners of the CCIO Award for Clinical IT Leadership at last year’s EHI Awards for a course

Access denied
The government has promised that patients will have online access to their GP records by 2015; yet enthusiasm from GPs and patients is limited. Fiona

Another view
GP Neil Paul was amused by some of the easyThoughts of his fellow columnist, Joe McDonald, but would like to see more of his workload

A quick waltz round ECR 2013
More than 20,000 visitors are expected to attend the 25th European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, next week. Paul Curran takes a look at the

Technology must enhance, not detract from, clinicians’ interactions with patients
The NHS needs to prioritise the delivery of agile, intuitive systems that enable clinicians to

EPRs must adapt to the changing healthcare landscape
As healthcare evolves, so too must the electronic patient records at its heart. This means

Driving healthcare innovation with both patients and the planet at heart
The NHS Long Term Plan seeks to mainstream digitally-enabled care across all areas of the

Transforming NHS procurement: how good data holds the key to integrated care
Evidence-based decisions on spending require a system that can handle data from multiple sites and

Underpin the vision for primary care-led services with better data
‘Hard to quantify’ primary and community care has been overlooked for too long. That could