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26 February 2019

GDE fast follower’s £10m digital programme gets green light

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, which is a fast follower of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, and will receive cash
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25 February 2019

North of Scotland Care Portal goes live with Orion Health

Orion’s clinical portal allows information currently held in two patient management systems used across the area to be held in
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Breast Cancer Screening
22 February 2019

Review of national cancer screening programmes to include focus on AI

Professor Sir Mike Richards will lead the review, which will also focus on current and future IT systems. The review
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22 February 2019

Better shared records vital to prevent asthma deaths, charity warns

Asthma UK is also calling for automatic alerts to be sent to GPs if their patient has been admitted to
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app round up
22 February 2019

Mobile health and apps news in brief

The latest roundup features Push Doctor partnering with Datix to improve their patient safety software and a food app that
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21 February 2019

How can we attract more women to CCIO roles?

The role of a chief clinical information officer can be a daunting one and it seems that women in particular
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21 February 2019

New AI is four times more accurate at predicting ovarian cancer deaths

The software examines four biological characteristics of tumours – structure, shape, size and genetic makeup – which influence a patient’s
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20 February 2019

Line ‘needs to be drawn’ to establish accountability in healthcare AI, report warns

Clinicians may find themselves incorrectly trusting decisions made by AI more than they trust their own, The Academy of Medical
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20 February 2019

GDE blueprints will be ‘useless’ without resources to teach them, CCIO claims

The blueprints contain timelines for implementation; web links; website content; advertising content; terms of reference and fair processing information.
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20 February 2019

CQC to begin inspecting how triage apps affect care

New guidelines on how to assure inspectors that apps are being used appropriately were published last month, following legal advise.
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