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There are many, many doctors who embrace technology in healthcare. But for one GP in Aberdeen, the thought of being asked to conduct consultations by Skype - as recently advocated by NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh - seems to have been just a bit too much.
Kevin Hinkley unburdened himself in a post on the pulsetoday website that was headlined "as deadly as afternoon tea with Gaddafi" and went on to describe the notion as "nothing short of medical terrorism". Dr Hinkley seems to regard computers as inherently unhelpful: prone to running virus checks and downloading updates at the worst possible moments. Crashing just because cups of tea land on them. EHI sympathises. We have a router that is causing all sorts of problems at the moment. But medical terrorism?
Cerner’s challenge to the decision by two Cambridge trusts to award an eHospital EPR project to Epic looks like sour grapes; but it may serve the NHS IT market, says EHI editor Jon Hoeksma.
5 July 2012
EHI editor and managing editor Jon Hoeksma and Lyn Whitfield reflect on what the NHS information strategy says – and doesn’t say.
24 May 2012
