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EHealthInsider: @ehealth_guru @himss good advice and not forgotten
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EHealthInsider: RT @CompareSoftware: @griffglen Im not sure Glen SystemOne is more like Lorenzo than Lorenzo -- has to be delphic tweet of day #eprdebate
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EHealthInsider: @griffglen @CompareSoftware @williamadoasi @gdvallance @dermotor @nrcuk @ehireporter thanks for joining chat Ive got to bow out #eprdebate
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EHealthInsider: In The Big EPR Survey 93% said every NHS trust should have a chief clinical information officer #ccio. http://t.co/9iEraULdtj #eprdebate
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EHealthInsider: @griffglen Hi Glen we think there are - EHI working on a new NHS clinical IT benchmarking tool covering all hospitals #ccio #eprdebate
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Commissioning support framework floated

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Special report: systems integration

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The Big EPR interview: Emil Peters

The vice president and managing director of Cerner talks to Rebecca Todd about the action that NHS England needs to take to get electronic patient records into trusts; and what success would look like.
21 May 2013

EHI interview: Mike Farrar

The chief executive of the NHS Confederation wants the NHS to get to grips with IT and information; fast. He talks to Lyn Whitfield.
21 May 2013

The Big EPR Survey: responses

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

Another view: Neil Paul

Our GP columnist returns to the subject of online patient access to records, and has some radical ideas for making it work.
14 May 2013

From the Heart and Chest

Septic shock

Success in sight

Falling up

Joe’s view of the NHS Number

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Barts appoints five clinical IT leads

Barts Health NHS Trust has appointed five senior clinicians to informatics leadership roles.

Central gov signs-off £32m business case

A £32m business case to provide nine southern community and child health providers with TPP’s SystmOne has been signed off by the government.

Nicholson to retire

Sir David Nicholson will retire as chief executive of NHS England in March 2014.

McKesson UK put up for sale

McKesson has announced its intention to sell McKesson UK, including subsidiaries System C and Liquidlogic.

Experts warn £260m not enough

A new government fund to boost adoption of e-prescribing will not be enough to help “laggard” trusts start the journey towards electronic patient records, health IT experts warn.

Commissioning support framework floated

NHS England is looking to develop a framework agreement for commissioning support services.

£260m fund to boost e-prescribing

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a £260 million fund for hospitals to increase their use of e-prescribing and electronic patient records.

CSU staff seconded to info centre

Around 180 commissioning support unit staff have been seconded into the Health and Social Care Information Centre to deliver the Data Service for Commissioners.

McKesson UK put up for sale

McKesson has announced its intention to sell McKesson UK, including subsidiaries System C and Liquidlogic.

James Paget decides against Lorenzo

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.

Barts appoints five clinical IT leads

Barts Health NHS Trust has appointed five senior clinicians to informatics leadership roles.

Experts warn £260m not enough

A new government fund to boost adoption of e-prescribing will not be enough to help “laggard” trusts start the journey towards electronic patient records, health IT experts warn.

McKesson UK put up for sale

McKesson has announced its intention to sell McKesson UK, including subsidiaries System C and Liquidlogic.

Another CSU collapses

The Surrey and Sussex Commissioning Support Unit will close down and look for options to merge with other organisations.

Two Cerner live sites go to tender

Two Southern Cerner live sites have gone out to tender to replace their patient administration and electronic patient record systems provided under NPfIT.

Spine2 built in-house on open source

The replacement for the NHS data spine, Spine2, is being built using open source components and is due to go live at the end of October.

NHS England to publish IT strategy

NHS England is developing an NHS Technology Strategy and Roadmap, setting a national direction for NHS IT.

Rotherham plan to 'deconstruct' Meditech

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is planning to deconstruct its troubled Meditech EPR implementation.

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£260m fund to boost e-prescribing

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a £260 million fund for hospitals to increase their use of e-prescribing and electronic patient records.

Barts appoints five clinical IT leads

Barts Health NHS Trust has appointed five senior clinicians to informatics leadership roles.

Doctors must respond to digital patient

Adoption of electronic records has reached a tipping point amongst doctors, but clinicians must do more to respond to digital patients, an international survey of health IT trends suggests.

CSU staff seconded to info centre

Around 180 commissioning support unit staff have been seconded into the Health and Social Care Information Centre to deliver the Data Service for Commissioners.

Commissioning support framework floated

NHS England is looking to develop a framework agreement for commissioning support services.

Joe’s view of the NHS Number

£260m fund to boost e-prescribing

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a £260 million fund for hospitals to increase their use of e-prescribing and electronic patient records.

Big EPR Survey reveals components of EPR

EHI readers believe that the government should maintain a clear focus on electronic patient records as it pursues its vision of 'paperless' working.

From the Heart and Chest

McKesson UK put up for sale

McKesson has announced its intention to sell McKesson UK, including subsidiaries System C and Liquidlogic.

Doctors must respond to digital patient

Adoption of electronic records has reached a tipping point amongst doctors, but clinicians must do more to respond to digital patients, an international survey of health IT trends suggests.

Experts warn £260m not enough

A new government fund to boost adoption of e-prescribing will not be enough to help “laggard” trusts start the journey towards electronic patient records, health IT experts warn.

NHS England to publish IT strategy

NHS England is developing an NHS Technology Strategy and Roadmap, setting a national direction for NHS IT.

McKesson UK put up for sale

McKesson has announced its intention to sell McKesson UK, including subsidiaries System C and Liquidlogic.

Take part in The Big EPR Debate

The NHS is once more being urged to implement electronic patient records as the foundation for paperless working - and it's time for EHI readers to shape the way forward.

Rotherham plan to 'deconstruct' Meditech

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is planning to deconstruct its troubled Meditech EPR implementation.

£260m fund to boost e-prescribing

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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