25 July 2005

Winning over clinicians key to success says Economist

Winning over busy, sceptical clinicians to the benefits of NHS IT modernisation has been highlighted as a key challenge by
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25 July 2005

NHS temp workers to get shifts by SMS

NHS human resources managers may soon be able to text temporary staff on their books with details of their vacancies,
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25 July 2005

Royal Society to investigate ICTs in health

The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has launched an investigation into how the rapidly developing fields of
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22 July 2005

Record hazards

Dr Glyn Hayes, Chair of the Health Informatics Forum at the British Computer Society, argues that electronic patient records can
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22 July 2005

Medicare to give away EPR software

Medicare, the largest US Federal payer of medical care, has announced that it is to help speed up the adoption
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22 July 2005

Trust with CEO linked to IT supplier rapped

The Audit Commission has criticised "lack of attention to good governance" in a hospital trust that procured IT services from
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21 July 2005

Consultation highlights concerns over NCRS ownership

Concerns over who will own the summary record on the spine and how the summary data will be validated are
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21 July 2005

Bringing CfH into the mainstream

Richard Jeavons, director of IT service implementation at the DH, tells E-Health Insider about his role in pushing IT reform
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21 July 2005

Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’

The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used
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21 July 2005

Fully automated blood transfusion in Oxford

The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, has now completed a pilot of its fully automated blood transfusion process in five clinical areas
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