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Local digital roadmaps delayed

Clinical commissioning groups now have until June to submit their Local Digital Roadmaps after NHS England pushed back the submission
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Wales adopts NHS Number

NHS Wales has adopted the NHS Number as the official patient identifier for all of its IT systems.
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Hull and East Yorkshire faces RTT issues

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has encountered data quality issues since it implemented the Lorenzo electronic patient record
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Hull of a job: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals’ EPR deployment, six months on

Martyn Smith, the director of IT and innovation at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, and his colleague Neil
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Healthcare IT news in brief

This week’s round up of healthcare IT industry developments includes new launches and a competiton for junior doctors to win
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Prescribing tool opens up GP data

A new online tool allows people to quickly analyse and respond to the huge GP prescribing datasets released monthly by
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Good data: with Ben Goldacre

Doctor and science writer Ben Goldacre would like a fund to support the development of NHS data tools and argues
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NHS England ad wants “outstanding” CI&TO

NHS England has published an advert for a ‘chief information and technology officer’ to replace its director of patients and
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Specialist hospitals to procure EHRs

Two specialist UK hospitals are looking to procure electronic patient record systems and have invited feedback from potential suppliers.
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Royal college in bid to cut child deaths

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is hosting a new online support tool to provide specialist diagnostic advice
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