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The initiative, known as the Digital Health Ecosystem Wales network, will initially run for a period of two years.

The new Local Health and Care Record Exemplar scheme and Digital Innovation Hubs will help the NHS improve care for patients, Health Minister tells delegates at a conference in London.

The new Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) scheme will build on solutions already in place, with five regions set to receive £7.5m that will have to be matched locally.

Last week, BJ-HC went to the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust to find out more about the recent Electronic Patient Record (EPR) phased roll-out programme.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica - Facebook data scandal, researchers set out a roadmap for the health and science community to restore the public's trust in big data.

Taunton and Somerset and Yeovil District Hospital are two of the 16 NHS trusts that have already achieved the e-Referral system paper switch off target.

The announcement comes after a new review found that more than 230 million errors occur every year in England in the medication process.

In total, 166 hospitals have now been validated at Stage 6 of the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Model (EMRAM) in Turkey.

“This is a joint appointment between NHS England and NHS Improvement and is a tangible example of the intention for both to work much more closely together, and with NHS Digital, to harness the power of data to improve patient care while keeping costs to taxpayers to an acceptable level,” said Sigurd Reinton, NHS Improvement Non-Executive Director."

“This is a joint appointment between NHS England and NHS Improvement and is a tangible example of the intention for both to work much more closely together, and with NHS Digital, to harness the power of data to improve patient care while keeping costs to taxpayers to an acceptable level,” said Sigurd Reinton, NHS Improvement Non-Executive Director."