Bitcoin tech has role in NHS: Walport

The technology behind the Bitcoin currency has potential application in the NHS, where it could open up new ways to
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Hull and East Yorkshire faces RTT issues

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has encountered data quality issues since it implemented the Lorenzo electronic patient record
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NHS England ad wants “outstanding” CI&TO

NHS England has published an advert for a ‘chief information and technology officer’ to replace its director of patients and
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Royal college in bid to cut child deaths

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is hosting a new online support tool to provide specialist diagnostic advice
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Blackpool takes open source EHR

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be the third acute trust to deploy the openMaxims electronic patient record.
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IT funds to come from transformation pot

NHS England has indicated that it wants to stop running tech funds and to start allocating money to IT from
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PAC slams GPES failures

Whitehall is continuing to fail to learn from IT disasters, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded in a report that
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Most read and commented, 2015

Digital Health News readers had a “what the flipping heck” moment in March, judging by the fact that ‘Emis and
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NHS deficits “unsustainable” – NAO warns

The National Audit Office has reiterated its warning that trust finances are “not sustainable” in a report that queries the
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London NHS devolution deal signed

Chancellor George Osborne and health secretary Jeremy Hunt have signed a health devolution deal for the NHS in London, that
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