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New Care Quality Commission report on Barts Health NHS Trust indicates the combination of paper and electronic notes led to a serious incident resulting in a patient’s death.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is set to go live with the Epic EHR system in April 2019, supported by its involvement in the fast follower scheme.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is set to go live with the Epic EHR system in April 2019, supported by its involvement in the fast follower scheme.

Further topics from the NHS innovation conference this week include the establishment of up to five digital innovation hubs to create and use datasets to improve quality of care or asking suppliers to adopt open approaches to data sharing.

NHS England officially backs recommendations from Sir John Bell’s Life Sciences Industrial strategy.

DH has also confirmed mental health exemplars will team up with up to seven fast followers.

This week, BJ-HC caught up with Hal Wolf, veteran of the digital health industry and former Chief Operating Officer of Kaiser Permanente. Starting his new role as President and Chief Executive Officer of HIMSS, Wolf gave us an insight into his plans and expectations for the organisation going forward.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is now expected to go live with the first phase of the Sunrise EPR in the spring of 2019.

The trust will initially be looking to deploy a ‘fully integrated’ Patient Administration System (PAS), Maternity, Renal and Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA).

“I think with regards to the definition of paper free, I would say we’ve now achieved it against the original timetable, which was 2018,” David Walliker, CIO at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust and Liverpool Women’s NHS FT, told BJ-HC.