Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a £260 million fund for hospitals to increase their use of e-prescribing and electronic patient records.
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EHI readers believe that the government should maintain a clear focus on electronic patient records as it pursues its vision of 'paperless' working.
16 May 2013
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has decided not to take CSC’s Lorenzo electronic patient record system under the company’s interim deal with the Department of Health. 
NHS England is committed to a making commissioning and contracting for outcomes an “absolute priority”, its director of commissioning support strategy and market development says. 
Whittington Health has gone live with the maternity module of Medway and plans to deploy the patient administration system in the autumn. 
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In almost 300 responses to The Big EPR Survey, EHI readers set out some very clear messages about the definition and make up of electronic patient records, and the best way to get them into the NHS. Lyn Whitfield reports.
16 May 2013
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13 May 2013
The Eyecare Integration Project, which lets Scottish optometrists refer patients to hospital electronically, was one of the winners at last year’s EHI Awards. Paul Curran reports.
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