
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

How do we improve the adoption of open source in the NHS?
Commitments to open-source technology are enshrined in NHS policy but adoption is frustratingly slow. It

Why are we stuck in first gear with Shared Care Records?
An excessive focus on innovation may be getting in the way of progress, says Lorraine

Usability: Why EPRs can and should do more
Suppliers of electronic patient records need to escape siloed thinking, come together and improve what

The NHS App is a critical tool in tackling the elective care backlog
Jackie France of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust argues that the NHS App

US firm CereCore brings its EMR implementation expertise to the UK
NHS organisations often struggle to cope with large electronic medical record projects. Nashville based implementation