Acronym for the UK National Health Service
Designed by the healthcare industry, for the healthcare industry; HETT 2019 will drive transformation and integration by connecting health technology innovators with digital leaders from across the healthcare ecosystem, fostering a digitally ready culture and encouraging adoption of best practice. HETT Read More …
Using the Devon Local Authority area and demographic as a model, an assessment of this authorities annual social and economic benefits potential for public service digital engagement with citizens has currently reached a staggering value in excess of £2.4billion. Realisation Read More …
NHS CyberSecurity lessons arising from the worldwide ransomware attack that occurred on the 14th of May is already prompting much debate for the NHS, much of which focuses on the failure of affected organisations to ensure adequate levels of investment Read More …
AN ambitious hi-tech £11m plan to allow any doctor or nurse to access a patient’s information from anywhere in the country is being launched by Islington health chiefs. Patients will have their own Facebook-style health records page or app, detailing Read More …
In May 2012 I wrote an article (Patient access to GP Records by 2015) and offered some immediate thoughts on who would be the primary beneficiaries of this Department of Health mandate, with some thought on identifying the primary element of Read More …
Citizen centred healthcare is part of a shift in focus which has drawn increasing interest in recent years, highlighting the importance of incorporating citizens’ needs and perspectives into care delivery. The citizen’s engagement with their care is now considered a Read More …
Identity and access management is one of the most challenging aspects of securing citizen, and from a National Health Service perspective patient, engagement on-line with services and information. This especially important when the engagement extends to on-line access to highly Read More …
eMail poses some interesting challenges from the information governance perspective, challenges that have been carried forth since the birth of personal computing and early misjudgements made in establishing this new computing concept. Personalisation Personal, or moreover the personalisation of user Read More …
Should you share data breach information? | NetworkWorld.com Community An interesting question put to two commercial CEO’s, which is a question of some relevance for the NHS. One of the challenges I believe many organisations face is the fact that Read More …
The NHS Information Governance Toolkit (IGT), with more than seven years effort in refinement and implementation by end user organisations, it would be reasonable to assume that not much more could be done for the development of information governance capability Read More …
