Alongside the inevitable Christmas bloat, the NHS App is in danger of becoming bloated with modules of additional functionality, writes Professor Joe McDonald
As you make your way home in the cold night air with…
Ahead of Caroline Criado-Perez’s keynote at Rewired 2020, you can win a signed copies of her award-winning book, Invisible Women. To celebrate the release of Digital Health columnist Professor Joe McDonald’s new book FHIR and Loathing in Las Vegas, we’re giving…
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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…
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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