Technology and innovation – Page 46
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NewsMajor IT supplier pays out to NHS over misleading reports
England’s biggest supplier of GP IT has reached a multimillion pound settlement after the company admitted to providing misleading information about the quality of its service.
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Expert BriefingThe Download: When IT fails
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Ben Heather in confidence here.
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Exclusive: Supplier faces 'big penalties' after huge NHS email shutdown
Consultancy firm Accenture is very likely to face “big penalties” after a software upgrade led to the complete shutdown of the NHS email service, HSJ has been told.
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NewsUpdate: Most NHS email accounts restored after mass shutdown
Most NHS email accounts are back online after a mass shutdown on Saturday that froze staff access to their accounts around the country.
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NewsExclusive: Hancock says his endorsement of GP at Hand helped competitors
Matt Hancock has told NHS IT suppliers his endorsement of GP at Hand has helped its competitors, even as he faces fresh criticism for supporting the digital GP practice.
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CommentTelephone reminder programmes facilitate cancer screening
Zoraida Colorado on how a telephone outreach service is leading to measurable improvements to cancer screening rates in London
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NewsTens of millions of patient records to move to Amazon cloud
More than 40 million UK patient records will be shifted onto Amazon Web Services, as part of a wider upgrade by the dominant NHS GP IT supplier.
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NewsGP at Hand safety restrictions lifted after NHS England review
All safety restrictions on the type of patients GP at Hand can deliver care to have been lifted following a review by NHS England, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS England overhauling national cancer screening programmes
NHS England will overhaul cancer screening as part of the long-term plan and has called on England’s first national cancer director to lead the work.
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Matt Hancock tells chief execs: Get a CIO on your board
The health secretary has said NHS chief executives should “be asking serious questions” of themselves if their board does not include a chief information officer.
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CommentThe Bedpan: The NHS after capitalism
The Bedpan is HSJ’s new weekly political column. This week, it features Paul Mason, former journalist and an intellectual driving force of the resurgent radical left.
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NewsRevealed: £700m NHS IT network upgrade delays
Plans to move the NHS to a new national IT network by 2020 are in doubt because of “vendor handover” delays.
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Expert Briefing
The Download: New challenger in the GP tech goldrush
The fortnightly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. Contact Ben Heather in confidence here.
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NewsGP patient data now being automatically collected to boost screening
NHS Digital will now routinely collect diabetic patient level data from GPs under a new legal direction designed to ensure consistent monthly reporting.
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HSJ InteractiveUsing data to improve urgent and emergency care
Ben Richardson discusses how the NHS can integrate its data to create a better demand and capacity plan across each system
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CommentThe NHS needs to create a single point of access to all cancer data
An improved cancer dashboard provides the NHS with insight to become better at preventing cancer, writes Maisie Borrows
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NewsExclusive: NHSI hiring consultants to create new efficiency 'model' for trusts
NHS efficiency chiefs are hiring management consultants to draw up a new model for how trusts should spend billions of pounds on goods and services, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsHancock: ‘we need to fire fewer chief executives’
Health secretary Matt Hancock has said the NHS must stop responding to perceived service or project failures by firing NHS trust chief executives.
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NewsNew tech team to clean up trust IT fiascos
A new central technology team is being parachuted into NHS trusts to clean up after major IT deployments go wrong.
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NewsIT defect results in thousands of prescription errors
An error in an IT system used by thousands of GP practices means patients around the country could have been given the wrong medication.