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Healthcare IT industry news in brief

This week’s round up features new products and developments from well-known healthcare IT companies, including System C and Civica.
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NAO raps DH for ‘admin error’ that just kept NHS in black

The National Audit Office has rapped the Department of Health over the knuckles for the way it managed to avoid
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Trusts and CCGs face crack-down in ‘reset’ on NHS finances

Five trusts and nine clinical commissioning groups have been put into a new ‘intervention regime' NHS England and NHS Improvement
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Royal Brompton goes live with Lorenzo

Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust has switched to a Lorenzo patient administration system; one of the first to
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The GDPR: the €20 million question

The EU’s general data protection regulation sounds like something the NHS won’t need to worry about, now the UK is
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Enter the CCG: asks a simple question

John Lockley wants to find a simple answer to a simple question about a supposedly crucial NHS IT target. Can
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DrDoctor cuts DNAs at Guy’s and St Thomas’

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust chief technology officer says that introducing a new digital booking system will save the
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Taunton and Somerset: open source EPR pioneers

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust went live in September 2015 with the UK’s first open source electronic patient record
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Special report: Observations and vital signs

E-observations are now well established at many trusts, and a priority for those drawing up local digital roadmaps.
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Health IT rethink needed amid “colossal” financial challenge

Sir David Dalton has called for a radical shake-up in the way that NHS IT is bought and deployed in
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