Special report: e-prescribing

This time last year, all was rosy for e-prescribing. Then the government all but cancelled the tech funds. Kim Thomas
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Special report: patient level information costing systems

After years of promoting patient level costing, Monitor has set up a programme to roll it out to all NHS
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Special report: electronic document management / scanning

Electronic document management is now a priority for many trusts, but they need to decide how much to scan and
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Special report: pathology

Healthcare economies are finally acting on the Carter report. This has triggered change in the supplier market; and more is
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Special report: digital dictation

Digital dictation is evolving. Increasingly, trusts are looking to use voice recognition to speed up the production of letters –
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Special report: community and child health systems

Companies wanting to play in the community and child health space have been investing in their IT systems. Daloni Carlisle
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Special report: systems integration

The language of systems integration has shifted from interoperability to ‘paperless’ working and ‘integrated’ care. Does this obscure more than
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Special report: picture archiving and communications systems

England is coming to the end of the PACS refresh triggered by the end of the National Programme for IT’s
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Special report: mobile

Mobility is no longer a ‘nice to have’. It’s essential if the NHS is to meet the demands facing it,
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Special report: maternity

Maternity units have been slow to take up IT, and while that’s changing, it’s only changing slowly. Kim Thomas reports.
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