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Small Is Beautiful
The view from the top at EHI Live 2012 was clear and consistent: without IT the NHS cannot deliver the savings, efficiencies and quality gains demanded of it. Read More »
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Some Lessons From a Major Outage
But what when the network goes down – across the country and possibly internationally?With remote hosting of business-critical systems becoming more widespread it’s worth looking at some of the implications of a major outage. Read More »
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SPINE 2 – A Game Changer For NHS IT
I attended a presentation of SPINE2 from CfH at Intellect today. I think it’s the first thing from CfH to really excite me (at least in a positive way) since they were established. [...] Read More »
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Spine2 Built In-House On Open Source
The replacement for the NHS data spine, Spine2, is being built using open source components and is due to go live at the end of October. Read More »
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Sssh! DataWell’s Clear-Cut Priority Is the Protection of Confidentiality
Everywhere people are, be it out shopping in a supermarket or sitting at home online, they are adding information to their digital footprint – which feeds into what is known as Big Data and so enables them to be traced. The use of Big Data can be beneficial to society, particularly in terms of health – which is why Gary Leeming’s job as director of informatics for the Greater Manchester Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) is to source and use the digital health footprints of patients both their for own benefit and that of clinicians...
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Tamiflu Cost Us £424m Yet We Still Don’t Know Much About It
Are you worried about how decisions involving public money are made? You should be. Read More »
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Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust in UK Pick IMS Maxims EHR
Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has picked IMS Maxims as preferred bidder to supply its electronic patient record system. The project could become the first implementation of an open source EPR in an acute NHS trust as IMS Maxims has committed to making its suite of products available on an open source basis.
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Tech Fund To 'Catalyse' NHS IT - Bryant
The £260m fund announced by the Department of Health as a boost for e-prescribing will be linked to NHS England’s guidance on electronic patient records to “catalyse” the adoption of IT in the NHS. Read More »
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Telehealth To Grow Six-Fold By 2017
Remote patient monitoring will ramp up worldwide, largely driven by U.S hospitals working to reduce readmissions and avoid Medicare penalties, says InMedica study.
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The End Of Tanning?
In the wake of research showing strong connections between indoor tanning and melanoma, the sunbed industry is battered and contracting. But the allure of artificially bronzed skin might be dwindling in general...
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The Evolving Role of Open Source Software in Medicine and Health Services
In this article, we highlight the barriers to progress and discuss the dangers of pursuing a standardization framework devoid of empirical testing and iterative development. We give the example of the openEHR Foundation, which was established at University College London (UCL) in London, England, with members in 80 countries....We argue that such an approach is now essential to support good discipline, innovation, and governance at the heart of medicine and health services, in line with the new mandate for health commissioning in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS), which emphasizes patient participation, innovation, transparency, and accountability. Read More »
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The New Health IT Arms Race Between The US And EU
If you were to ask anyone in the United States what “health access” meant to them, you would get a different answer. In the UK, for most people, it means the ability to access National Health Service (NHS) amenities.
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The NHS’s Chaotic IT Systems Show No Sign Of Recovery
Paperless patient records are a necessity, but a new, US–made system at Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge is a chronic misreading of patient needs...
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The Transition From Spine To Spine 2 - A Success Story Or Yet Another NHS IT Failure?
Since the winding down of what had been described by MPs as the “worst and most expensive contracting fiasco in the history of the public sector”, the National Programme of IT (NPfIT), little has been left for the NHS to savour. That is aside from NHS’s Spine, the part of the national infrastructure that stores patient information and enables electronic messaging...
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Time For Zero-Tolerance
[...] I wonder why so many “designing” and procuring NHS IT Systems manage to deliver systems that make life more difficult for frontline staff undermining the quality and service they are able to offer patients. Read More »
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