
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

‘Desperate shortage of clinical coders creates financial uncertainty’
A shortage of clinical coders has wide-ranging consequences, argues Dr Marc Farr, chair of the

Henrique Martins: ‘The UK needs to go big with harmonised large datasets’
Henrique Martins shares his views with Digital Health News on the forthcoming NHS 10 year

High-quality data is the foundation on which to build the NHS’s 10-year plan
Transitioning from analogue to digital is not merely a technical challenge, writes Reecha Sofat, chair

NHS England’s federated data platform: One year on
Many of the initial concerns about the FDP have proven unfounded one year after its

Could virtual hospitals be the solution to the broken NHS?
Virtual hospitals could move us away from trust silos to create a transformed national service,