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EHealth Insider editor Jon Hoeksma talks to Ewan Davis of the BCS about next week's Primary Care Health Info event, taking place at Chesford Grange, Warwickshire 23 - 25 April 2012.
18 April 2012
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EHealth Insider diary 23 September 2011

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?






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Fiona Barr is stepping down as editor of EHI Primary Care. She looks back over 340 issues of writing about GP IT policy and systems – and learning more about the QoF than she ever imagined possible.
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EHealth Insider editor Jon Hoeksma looks at the latest attempt to axe the zombie NPfIT; and wonders how healthcare IT is going to emerge from its long night of the living dead.
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