Opinion
System failure
How much did the recent case of Penny Campbell, who died after speaking to eight out-of-hours doctors, have to do with how clinical information was
Paper weight
Cardiac liaison nurse specialst Rob Harteveldt wonders at his increasing mountains of paperwork and asks why IT isn’t reducing the load.
Border control
Neil Versel finds out what barriers still need to be overcome before electronic health record sharing becomes common between European countries.

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