digitalhealth.net reports: Portals – made for sharing (featuring Jim Beagle, CEO BridgeHead Software)

In this article, digitalhealth.net sums up the possible directions and approaches, in terms of IT procurement, that NHS Trusts can take. Supported by the NHS England’s tech funds, hospitals are looking at ways to give clinicians better access to their existing systems and to share information with other healthcare organisations. Clinical portals seem to be hot on the agenda and NHS Trusts looking to develop an electronic patient record, have two broad choices open to them. They can go for the convenience of buying from a single supplier, or they can be flexible and look to integrate their core systems with best-of-breed choices for their different departments and services. Find out what Homerton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (London) has done to put itself in a good position (now and in the future) when adopting new technology.

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