Healthcare IT news in brief

Sandwell and West Birmingham in Cerner deal Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS trust has signed a £18.8 million deal
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What now for the Wachter have-nots?

Jon Hoeksma, the chief executive and editor of Digital Health, asks what will happen to the NHS providers frozen out
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Home comforts: Surrey’s IoT trial for dementia care

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is leading a test-bed to trial the use of the Internet of Things
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Health CIO National Conference next week

NHS Digital chief executive Andy Williams will be joined by a wide range of speakers at the Health CIO National
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Enter the CCG: post Wachter, what can hospitals learn from primary care?

Now the Wachter Review is out, Dr John Lockley thinks there are lots of principles for IT implementation that hospitals
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Interview: Mark England

The director of reengineering and informatics at Luton and Dunstable NHS Foundation Trust talks to Lyn Whitfield about its EPR
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Davey Winder: older does not mean wiser

Healthcare IT devices and software are expected to work hard for a long time. From a security point of view,
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Another view: of handling letters

GP Neil Paul wants a better way to deal with the many letters that flow into a GP surgery; one
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UCL Institute of Digital Health to work with Cerner UK

The UCL Institute of Digital Health has signed a partnership with Cerner UK to “close the gap between what is
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