Joe McDonald: ‘The single patient record is too big to succeed’
The push for a single patient record is ill-advised and doomed to failure, writes Joe McDonald
I could not have been prouder when the Great North Care Record won Team of the Year at…
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Senior leaders form an integrated health and care advisory board
L to R: Professor Joe McDonald, Dr Rowan Sill and Dr Harpreet Sood (Image provided by The Access Group)
The Access Group has established an integrated health and care advisory board, with three senior…
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A very Aussie Christmas
Joe Mcdonald is in Melbourne for the festive season. And it isn’t just the heat that feels like a welcome change – he’s impressed by the Aussie approach to interoperability
I roll the cold beer…
We need ‘a report like Darzi’s’ on NHS IT
The “honesty and speed” of Lord Darzi’s independent investigation into the state of the NHS is impressive – and the IT community must respond to his call for a “tilt to technology”. But NHS…
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Joe McDonald: NHS IT’s failed patient safety culture needs radical change | Digital Health
An approach by a BBC journalist has Joe McDonald wondering what it will take to end the NHS scandal of flawed computer systems wasting public money and harming patientsMr Bates vs The Post Office…
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Joe McDonald: The moment I realised, I’m history | Digital Health
A stellar career in digital wasn’t enough to land Joe McDonald an interview for the national CCIO job. So why was he passed over? He has his suspicionsSailing out of Mesolongi at dawn is…
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Should we admit our mistakes and start again? | Digital Health
At last month’s giant HIMSS in Orlando, you could ‘smell the money’. But it might be time to stop getting excited about the future of health tech and face up to some hard truths,…
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Joe’s View: Santa, this is unsustainable
Santa was buckling under the strain – until Mrs Claus came up with a plan. Joe McDonald’s Christmas column this year looks at whether this festive tale could hold a lesson for the NHS.A…
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Is the Federated Data Platform too expensive to cancel?
Sticking with a hugely expensive plan to develop a ‘mythical beast’ of a fighter plane in the 1960s did not end well for the government of the day. The Federated Data Platform may be…
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