• (The other) Hancock’s Interoperability Insights: Vision without execution is just hallucination

  Following on from his previous blog, David Hancock, client engagement director at InterSystems, considers Matt Hancock’s Tech Vision and how…
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• (The other) Hancock’s Interoperability Insights

  The reality of NHS interoperability If we are to effectively tackle the unprecedented financial, clinical and social problems in health…
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• East Kent Hospitals makes switch to new Allscripts PAS

  East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust says it has successfully changed its patient administration system, giving it a platform…
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• Continuing Healthcare: how a digital solution transformed Cheshire CCGs’ assessment process

  Put yourself in the position of the family of an elderly relative reliant on Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) processes to…
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• HIMSS’s validates Stage 6 Cambridge University Hospitals quality badge

  Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) is, for the second time, the first in the UK to achieve a…
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• NHS Highland pilots video consultation service

  NHS Highland is expanding its use of online video consultation platform with a week-long trial of remote appointments at a…
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• NHS Scotland to move to single healthcare digital system

  NHS Scotland has announced its plan to consolidate its IT systems into a national platform to improve security and collaboration. The health…
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• Europe’s Digital Agenda (15-19 October)

  Welcome to this edition of Europe’s Digital Agenda. In this space I uncover and detail last week’s digital developments from…
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• Hancock’s tech vision for the NHS includes “mandatory” interoperability standards to allow systems to talk to each other

  Health and Social Care Secretary and tech advocate Matt Hancock has promised an end to “outdated and obstructive NHS IT…
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• Necessary NHS IT investment of nearly £13bn approaches NPfIT levels, report says

  The NHS will require up to £13bn in IT investment over the next five years, according to a report in…
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