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Ipswich to get £14m for Lorenzo

The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust expects to receive nearly £14m in funding from the government for taking CSC’s Lorenzo electronic
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Mind the gaps

Dr Phil Koczan, chief clinical information officer at UCL Partners, considers the NHS’ need for information – and why it
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Ten suppliers on £300m framework

Ten suppliers are on a new framework worth up to £300m to supply clinical information systems to 30 community and
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Care.data IG reconsidered

A new information governance assessment of the massive care.data GP extract is being presented to an Independent Advisory Group meeting
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Francis response includes Ofsted-ratings

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that an ‘Ofsted style’ system of summary ratings for hospitals and care homes will
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Special report: community systems

Interest in integrating health and social care waxes and wanes. At the moment, it’s waxing. Fiona Barr reports.
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Rikki-Tikki-data

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust digitised its records; and then worked with Mongoose so clinicians could find them. The result
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From the frontline

Andrew Carr, an emergency nurse practitioner and IT enthusiast from Cambridge, considers gamification in the NHS; and how IT could
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Torbay halts integrated record project

Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust has paused its "pioneering" shared community record project while it reassesses
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Darlington digitises records with TNT

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is aiming to digitise all of its medical records in a contract with
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