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Healthcare CIOs lack confidence in the government's ability to deliver IT innovation in the NHS, according to an industry survey.
"Technology is never the difficult thing to put in to any setting," Mark Austin, CIO of Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, told CIO UK. "It is the management and deployment of it that presents a challenge. It is not that people within the NHS are averse to going paperless or wireless ? the phased management of it all is the biggest challenge."
Bedford NHS trust introduced Wi-Fi and tablet devices to improve patient care and processes. Austin feels it is important to remember that more established consultants can struggle with records going paperless. "So yes, part of it is the fear of the unknown, but it also has much to do with being resistive to change ? that's human nature," he said.
http://www.cio.co.uk/news/data-mana...s-lack-confidence-in-nhs-it-innovation-plans/
"Technology is never the difficult thing to put in to any setting," Mark Austin, CIO of Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, told CIO UK. "It is the management and deployment of it that presents a challenge. It is not that people within the NHS are averse to going paperless or wireless ? the phased management of it all is the biggest challenge."
Bedford NHS trust introduced Wi-Fi and tablet devices to improve patient care and processes. Austin feels it is important to remember that more established consultants can struggle with records going paperless. "So yes, part of it is the fear of the unknown, but it also has much to do with being resistive to change ? that's human nature," he said.
http://www.cio.co.uk/news/data-mana...s-lack-confidence-in-nhs-it-innovation-plans/