Left to right: Ynez Simonds, Lee Rickles, Monica Fletcher, Tom Micklewright, Alec Price-Forbes (Credit: Claire Read)
Technology is central to realising the NHS’s ambition to provide more care closer to home, delegates at Digital…
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Alec Price-Forbes, national CCIO for England at day two of Rewired 2025 (Credit: Claire Read)
NHS England’s chief clinical information officer (CCIO) has stressed a national commitment to increased interoperability and integration, even as…
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Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has announced plans to implement the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record (YHCR), connecting records from hospitals, GPs, mental health services and social care providers in the…
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An AI framework has been launched to help the NHS deliver safe and ethical pathways to use AI effectively across London.
The framework, published by NHS South East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) on 3…
Large language models (LLMs) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have improved information extraction over previous methods, yet their reliance on embeddings often leads to inefficient retrieval. We introduce CLinical Entity Augmented Retrieval (CLEAR), a RAG…
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Accurate prognostication guides optimal clinical management in skin cancer. Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is the most aggressive form of skin cancer that often presents in advanced stages and is associated with poor survival rates….
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The government’s focus on a shift from ‘analogue to digital’ offers new promise for the world of NHS digital and technology in 2025. But questions remain unanswered around how this will work in practice,…
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Qualified clinical coders are vital to ensure clinical information and funding flows around the system correctly. But a national shortage of coders is having wide-ranging consequences, argues Marc Farr, chair of the Chief Data…
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Dr Santosh Verghese, Chief Medical Information Officer, SA Health discusses the importance of secure access to clinical information to best asssit healthcare providers to make the right decisions in a quick and timely manner.My…
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Digital Health Networks’ 2024 mentoring programme has received positive feedback from mentors and mentees, ahead of the launch of the expanded 2025 programme.
The 2024 programme launched in October 2023 to support aspiring, emerging and…
