20 January 2016

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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18 January 2016

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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13 January 2016

NHS England ad wants “outstanding” CI&TO

NHS England has published an advert for a ā€˜chief information and technology officerā€™ to replace its director of patients and
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12 January 2016

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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11 January 2016

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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5 January 2016

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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4 January 2016

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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29 December 2015

Most read and commented, 2015

Digital Health News readers had a ā€œwhat the flipping heckā€ moment in March, judging by the fact that ā€˜Emis and
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16 December 2015

NHS deficits “unsustainable” – NAO warns

The National Audit Office has reiterated its warning that trust finances are ā€œnot sustainableā€ in a report that queries the
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15 December 2015

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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