Joe’s view: of The Power of Information

Does the new NHS information strategy hold the answer to life, the universe and everything – or even the future
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Money talks

Delegates to this year’s NHS Confederation conference confronted the financial challenge facing the NHS; but not the sheer scale of
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Return to the EPR Arms

Sean Brennan, who wrote the Down at the EPR Arms column in the early days of the National Programme for
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In the summary time

The creation of Summary Care Records for 50m people was the most high profile and contentious of the national projects
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CCIO profile: Dr Paul Altmann

The chief clinical information officer of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust was on the frontline of its implementation of Cerner
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What did NPfIT ever do for GPs?

Many of the national projects developed by the National Programme for IT in the NHS relied on the buy-in and
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IMS Maxims works on da Vinci code

IMS MAXIMS is working on a cloud-based electronic health record for patients that will be supplemented by a number of
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Risky business

The Nuffield Trust has just run its third conference on predictive risk, focusing on how to apply and implement models
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Horrible history part two: things fall apart

The National Programme for IT in the NHS got off to a flying start; but soon started to go off-track.
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Graham takes stand in iSoft trial

A former senior executive of iSoft, accused of misleading investors over a £44.3m contract, has denied that failing to agree
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