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ICO acts after Belfast data put online

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has been fined £225,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after photographs of patient records
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CCIO profile: Dr Paul Altmann

The chief clinical information officer of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust was on the frontline of its implementation of Cerner
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What did NPfIT ever do for GPs?

Many of the national projects developed by the National Programme for IT in the NHS relied on the buy-in and
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Choose and Book use drops further

National Choose and Book usage has dropped below 50% and is just 25% in some areas.
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IT issues uncovered at specialist trust

A report has found that the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has no “coherent strategy” and “is off the
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Special report: PACS/RIS

The end of national contracts for digital imaging systems next year is forcing trusts to consider their future approach to
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Sectra buys Burnbank Systems

Sectra has bought the company that developed the Image Exchange Portal that is used by almost all NHS trusts to
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Royal Berks live with Cerner Millennium

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust went live with its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system yesterday.
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New board will expand SCR

A new advisory body is being created to look at expanding the Summary Care Record to include non-GP information such
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DH to help CCGs pick support services

The government is to provide clinical commissioning groups with more help on choosing commissioning support services, following criticism that CCGs
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