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?
Nine acute trusts in London launched one of the biggest PAS and EPR tenders seen in England, outside the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
The government’s embattled Health Bill returns to the House of Lords and TPP’s clinical record viewer goes live in Scarborough.
An eHealth Insider investigation found that Cerner Millennium sites in the South have seen benefits from using the system; but only a few will discuss what they are.
Welcome to the second edition of the new-look EHI Industry newsletter, which comes with a second EHI Intelligence Digest focusing on recent NHS IT procurements, tenders and contracts awards.
EHealth Insider has been covering the travails of CSC this week.
