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The NHS long-term plan: Digital ambitions

Healthcare IT News: Every time a plan is published for the NHS, the health IT community holds its collective breath for a moment as it waits to see how its digital fortunes will fare. Fortunately, on this occasion a plan has been published with the backing of a health secretary that few could argue is not profoundly embracing technology. However, amidst the collective sigh of relief, we have to probe more closely about the key themes that have emerged and what they mean in practice.

For me, there were three elements that jumped out in the plan that are clearly related to one another – access, interoperability and security. These are not new themes but they have definitely gathered steam in the last 18 months.

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