Joe McDonald

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6 November 2017

Great North Care Record Model to switch to opt-in data sharing

The Great North Care Record is to switch from a model where patients can choose to opt out of information
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20 September 2017

Joeā€™s View: Consent is dead; long live citizen data sharing preferences

Joe McDonald wasnā€™t a hobbit in Lord of the Rings, he wasnā€™t at Wembley to see Geoff Hurstā€™s winner, but
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3 August 2017

Joeā€™s View: Betting on the 1% Open Digital Challenge Fund

Joe McDonald, chair of the CCIO Network and Digital Healthā€™s sometimes travel editor, is inspired by his use of next
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30 June 2017

GDE profile: Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

At Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, there is a desire to use GDE status to support the "easyjetifying"
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19 June 2017

Joe’s view: On the need for a Bat Signal

Joe mourns the original Batman, reflects on why healthcare IT needs a Bat Signal, and ponders how one has been
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Joe's View cultural change
11 May 2017

Joeā€™s View: Leadership, cultural revolution and health informatics

How, Joe wonders, can the culture of NHS Digital truly be transformed? Time for its leaders to enter the Zone
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20 March 2017

The CCIO Interview: Joe McDonald, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear

The CCIO Interview with Joe McDonald at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. He talks about the Great North
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Shared records
22 February 2017

Great North Care Record signs up nearly all North East GP practices

The Great North Care Record has signed up 96% of north east GP practices to turn on their information governance,
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28 December 2016

Most read Digital Health features and columns, 2016

Digital Health readers wanted to know how trusts had really got on with high-profile deployments in 2016; while communicating with
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14 December 2016

Joeā€™s view: of a Ā£40 million present for the NHS to open

When he was three, Joe McDonald wanted a Johnny Seven one man army, the very latest thing from New Jersey.
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