Dr John Somers of Nottingham City Hospital explains how England’s PACS programme is hoping to make PACS the repository for all radiological images.

In the latest of his 60 second interviews Joe Fernandez puts the questions to Mik Horswell, director of the UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals (UK CHIP).

EHI goes behind the scenes at Benenden Hospital, as it prepares to go-live with an Oasis electronic patient record system.

Joe Fernandez talks to Matthew Swindells, former interim chief information officer for the DH, and now a managing director of health at consultancy Tribal.

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs, discusses some key issues for the profession.

The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.

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The final report of the Next Stage Review of the English NHS sees technology-driven change as one of the challenges facing the NHS in the 21st century.

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The NHS was born 60 years ago. Computers are a more recent invention but technology is about more than computers, as the history of BT’s involvement with the NHS shows.

Nick Timmins, public policy editor of the Financial Times, argues that the NHS has to succeed in digitisatising if it is to last another 60 years.

Homerton University NHS Foundation Trust won the 2007 BT e-Health Insider award for Excellence in Health Information Management.