3 November 2006

Large scale telecare pilot details published

The Department of Health has identified its target groups and released more information for prospective participants about its telecare pilot
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2 November 2006

Compulsory cleaning keyboard battles MRSA

A new keyboard that reminds its user that it needs to be cleaned regularly has been developed by scientists at
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2 November 2006

Paper weight

Cardiac liaison nurse specialst Rob Harteveldt wonders at his increasing mountains of paperwork and asks why IT isn't reducing the
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2 November 2006

Scottish ECS proving a success

Launched last summer the Scottish Emergency Care Summary is already proving a success making out-of-hours communications more efficient and effective.
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2 November 2006

Scotland mandates online patient data dictionary

A new clinical standards dictionary has been set up by NHS Scotland’s National Clinical Dataset Development Programme in an effort
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1 November 2006

Wales to tender for GP software at national standards

Wales is to go out to tender for GP software suppliers to comply with a national framework contract in a move
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1 November 2006

Newspaper prints “opt out” coupons for Spine

A national newspaper is advising readers how to opt out of the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR) on the national
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1 November 2006

NHS IT project aims for 120 major installs by April

Connecting for Health has published details of the main systems deployed by its three local service providers since June, outlining
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31 October 2006

NHS Scotland aims for electronic records from 2010

Delivering for Health, the board responsible for IT in NHS Scotland, says it will act on the key recommendations of
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31 October 2006

Apollo patient data mining software may breach DPA

A primary care IM&T adviser has recommended that GP practices do not use Department of Health supplied software to extract
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