Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has pledged to improve the technology used by the NHS, claiming it will play a “key” part in the Better Care Fund.
NHS England’s emerging focus for patient data collage, the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), is planning to develop a patient data security programme.
In the second of three major features on the current state of IT in the UK healthcare system, Gary Flood asks how realistic a 'paperless NHS' by 2015 really is.
MyNHS, a new website where people can compare the performance of local hospitals, care services and their local authority with up-to-date information, has been launched by the Health Secretary.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has appointed Dame Fiona Caldicott to a new role as National Data Guardian for health and care.
A communications, managed print and IT services provider has claimed that hospitals will need to win the “hearts and minds” of staff if they are to be paperless by 2018.
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