3 March 2016

Joe’s view of lava lamps (and the Great North Care Record)

Joe McDonald says the NHS is like a lava lamp: constantly changing in response to political heat. But healthcare economies
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25 February 2016

Cambridge: big bang reality

Cambridge University Hospitals went live with Epic as part of a £200 million eHospital programme in October 2014. Digital Health
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19 February 2016

Salford best practice site visit: Rock stars, roadies and sexy data

NHS IT leaders went to Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust to learn from its implementation of electronic patient records and
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16 February 2016

Legal view: sharing is daring?

Christopher Air and Eleanor Tunnicliffe from DAC Beachcroft consider the vexed issue of information sharing between NHS organisations from the
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9 February 2016

Another view: of funding GP workload

A review of the funding formula for GPs may be on the way. Neil Paul has been pulling together data
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5 February 2016

Healthcare IT appointments in brief

This month's round up includes changes at King's and Birmigham, a promotion at the HSCIC, and a new vice-president for
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3 February 2016

Enter the CCG: on the snail at the backdoor

John Lockley worries that the NHS is going down the line of centralised, expensive ‘solutions’ to cybercrime, when what it
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28 January 2016

Tracking down kidney failure: Western Sussex develops AKI alerts

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been developing acute kidney injury alerts for Patientrack, and is now planning a
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26 January 2016

Joe’s view: Can the NHS bear to be special?

Joe McDonald is worried that “NHS special” technology services are coming at too high a development and financial cost to
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25 January 2016

Interview: George Freeman

The life sciences minister’s vision is that “every patient is a research patient”. For that to happen, he tells Digital
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