Opinion

Opinion Article: Collaboration is the Future

By Shane Tickell, CEO, IMS MAXIMS.
In the late 1980s, after the NHS started going through its largest period of change, I began working for a women and children's hospital, which was part of a larger group. At this time we were using a workflow system that was locally hosted on our site, however you could centrally report on all the individual hospitals. Despite being able to successfully administer our patients, manage our stock control, procedures and billing, we were missing the detailed patient notes - which were on paper.

Opinion Article: Where Next for the Portal?

By Dr Joel Ratnasothy, Medical Director EMEA for Caradigm.
The problem is that a portal in a healthcare IT context is a loosely defined term to describe a web page that displays information retrieved from other systems. The systems it connects are ideally 'Best of Breed' applications that manage specific clinical tasks such as medical imaging or blood sample testing. But the broader IT industry no longer talks about web portals, but it is talking about ‘big data’.

IT Adoption in the NHS: Learning from Past Lessons

By Richard Craven, Vice-president and Managing Director, EMEA for Caradigm.
Influential politicians continue to voice very strong criticism over the cost of the National Programme for IT; but a greater concern is that the health service still does not have the information systems it needs to help clinicians improve healthcare and deliver an affordable healthcare economy in the future.

Opinion Article: Clinical Skills - Why Educators Need a Sea Change in their Approach

By Val Dimmock, simulation and clinical skills facilitator at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The key to delivering safe, high quality care is a knowledgeable, competent and confident workforce, yet the Francis Report shows that the NHS is struggling to ensure that staff develop and maintain the necessary skills. Val Dimmock, simulation and clinical skills facilitator at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, says clinical skills leads must adopt a new approach to training, supported by innovative online learning tools.

(Opinion Article) Pathway to Privacy: Time to Take Ownership of Re-building Trust with Patients

By Tim Dunn, General Manager, FairWarning.
The government has finally published its long-awaited response to the Caldicott2 review of information sharing in the NHS - and, as many of us had hoped, has accepted all of its recommendations. It's a landmark moment that could see the NHS turn an important corner and stride progressively towards building transformational models of care.

Opinion Article: A Paperless NHS - Why We cannot Stop at Electronic Record

By Tim Hawkins, Managing Director of Clinical Solutions at Elsevier.
The call to create a "paperless NHS" by 2018 aims to deliver improvements in patient safety, experiences of patients and health care professionals, as well as delivering high quality care and increase efficiency. The focus so far has, largely, been on digitising patient records, especially with the launch of the £260 million "Safer Wards, Safer Hospitals" Technology Fund, which will provide match funding for NHS providers in England to support the move away from paper-based systems.

Opinion Article: Embracing the Digital Library

By Wayne Sime, Director of Library Services at the Royal Society of Medicine.
When I joined the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in 2006, a year before the Kindle was invented and four years before the iPad dominated the tablet market, the RSM's library was a very different place.

Opinion News

Opinion Article: Collaboration is the Future

Opinion Article: Where Next for the Portal?

IT Adoption in the NHS: Learning from Past Lessons

Opinion Article: Clinical Skills - Why Educators Need a Sea Change in their Approach

(Opinion Article) Pathway to Privacy: Time to Take Ownership of Re-building Trust with Patients

Opinion Article: A Paperless NHS - Why We cannot Stop at Electronic Record

Opinion Article: Embracing the Digital Library

More eHealth News ...

Latest Business News

Latest Research News

Latest Conferences News

Latest Jobs