Tackling the real questions from NHS finance leads, IMS MAXIMS Leesa Ewing provides a commercial director’s honest reflections on recurring hurdles Ongoing news of an NHS ‘cash flow crisis’ has continued to appear in the media in recent weeks, despite new funding pledges from the government in November’s budget. Arguably […]
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Highland Marketing: Predictions for 2018
What is the coming year likely to hold for NHS and IT? And what will that mean for marketers, companies and trusts working with healthcare technology? Highland Marketing looks ahead. Lyn Whitfield, strategy and content director, on NHS finance and policy in 2018 The NHS received a five-year financial settlement […]
Cindy Fedell, CIO, Bradford Teaching Hospitals: Data migration, matters
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has just gone live with a Cerner Millennium electronic patient record in a joint deployment with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. Data migration was a key part of the project, and one that other organisations can learn from, says chief information officer Cindy […]
Opinion piece: Defusing healthcare’s data security ‘timebomb’
By Bill Mann, SVP of products and chief product officer, Centrify According to the National Audit Office (NAO), the NHS could have prevented the WannaCry ransomware attack that led to the cancellation of at least 6,900 appointments. The report found it had failed to follow cybersecurity recommendations made in 2014, […]
Chris Parsons, Valuing Care, asks why isn’t more effort being made to control increasing continuing healthcare (CHC) costs?
The National Audit office study into Continuing Health Care in 2017 illustrates some startling figures on the growing cost of CHC to the NHS. There has been a 16% increase in spending from 2013-14 to 2015-16 and this is due to continue rising. The £3.6bn pa spend in 2016-17 is […]
Interview Series: Jason Young, Chief Information Officer NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG
Our next quick interview is with Jason Young, CIO at NHS Bath and North East Somerset CCG. What technology projects are you working on at the moment? A single domain for GP practices to enable a more mobile workforce, changes to practice websites and trialling online consultations to improve the […]
Interview Series: Thomas Manning, Head of Information & Performance, South Gloucestershire CCG
Our health tech leaders interview series continues here with our interview with Thomas Manning, Head of Information & Performance from South Gloucestershire CCG. What technology projects are you working on at the moment? Single Domain – across BNSSG – centralised access management – cloud backup of GP/CCG systems data – centralised […]
Interview Series: Les Manley, Director of ICT, Kent and Medway NHS
Over the next few weeks we aim to interview health tech leaders from across the market. First we caught up with Les Manley, Director of ICT at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. What technology projects are you working on at the moment? Our major projects this […]
Interview: What does the future hold for risk stratification and healthcare analytics in the NHS?
One of the principal analysts at South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit talks to Lyn Whitfield, content and strategy director at Highland Marketing, about the evolution of risk stratification in the NHS, and what the future holds for healthcare analytics, in the run-up to this year’s EHI Live. It’s […]
Interview: Digital Jersey’s CEO, Tony Moretta
How is Digital Changing Today’s Leaders? Technology is changing the business landscape and how we behave as leaders. All information is being digitised – not just documents in office, but our social interaction, our whereabouts, our health information through wearables; with the Internet of Things even physical products are now […]
