The UK’s National Audit Office have just released their report on digital transformation in the NHS. As many hospitals and GP practices across the NHS use new technology to transition to remote consultations and electronic services, this report outlines some of the key challanges: The NHS’s health and care services
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Public health agencies that have developed contract-tracing apps can now use the first component of the Apple-Google contact tracing API called “Exposure Notifications” following an update to the iOS and Android operating systems. Read the full joint statement on Exposure Notifications below: “One of the most effective techniques that public
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Springer have made the classic health informatics textbook “Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine 4th Edition”, edited by Edward H. Shortliffe an d James J. Cimino freely available online for PDF or e-Book download. Publishers description: Provides the conceptual base needed to comprehend and utilize medical informatics
Continue readingA couple of months ago, we held a Digital Health Oxford event on Open Source Electronic Health Records systems and Open Standards in Healthcare at the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University. We had four great speakers who shared their knowledge and experience about Open Source EHR systems and the use
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The first day of Medical Informatics Europe 2016 for me consisted of a tutorial led by Dr Niels Peek and Dr Evan Kontopantelis from the University of Manchester on the topic of Learning Health Systems followed by two very interesting Keynotes from Martin McKee and Andre Kushniruk. First, Learning Health Systems.
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