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.

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