New Quality Mark Launched for Health Information
A new website and "Triangle Mark" have been launched by the Centre for Health Information Quality (C-H-i-Q’s) to help raise standards for online and offline health information. The new site Hi Quality, has been backed by Department of Health funding , and was developed as part of C-H-i-Q’s quality assurance programme, recently implemented across all […]
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Can EPRs Save Time? Yes, But…
Tentative evidence that electronic patient records can save time has emerged from a survey of users at Poole Hospital, Dorset – but the hospital’s head of IT counsels caution in interpreting the results, especially in terms of cash savings. The survey’s findings presented to the Graphnet Users Group by Poole’s head of IT, Andy Hadley, […]
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Internet Will Empower Service Users
The 21st century will be the age of the net empowered medical end user and the patient-driven online support networks of today will evolve into more robust and capable medical guidance systems that will allow end users to direct and control an ever growing portion of their own medical care, an editorial in the British […]
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Danish Province Blazes Trail on EPR
Most healthcare systems in the industrialised world are struggling to develop or implement different models of electronic patient records, with the UK together with Australia, Canada, New Zeeland and the Netherlands often cited as being world leaders. But one of the most advanced and widespread EPR programmes in use is in the Danish province of […]
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Medical Students Targeted for Mindwarp
A new web-based e-learning service which promises to helps medical students learn faster and get better exam results has been launched in the UK. Developed and produced by UK firm Mindwarp Pavilion , the e-learning tool is said to allow medical students to use simple mind mapping techniques to revise chosen subjects on-line. Mindwarp’s technology […]
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Global Healthcare Exchange Goes Live at Leeds
Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), the health e-commerce platform established by an alliance of leading international medical device firms, has announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first European hospital to be integrated into its e-commerce system. Medical industry-backed GHX focuses on deeply integrating into the purchasing systems of hospitals and suppliers to cut […]
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Supanet Selects Medicdirect Content
Supanet, the UK’s largest privately owned Internet Service Provider (ISP) has selected Medicdirect.co.uk, the health website hosted by NHS consultants, to launch its new-look Health Channel www.supanet.com/health/. With the additional content from Medicdirect, Supanet will now offer its million strong subscriber base specific information on everything from minor ailments to major operations. New features include […]
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Information Guidance on Shifting the Balance of Power
Guidance on maintaining or improving information flows and structures during the NHS’s Shifting the Balance of Power programme has been published by the Department of Health. Part of a steady flow of guidance from the DH aimed at smoothing the transition in April to the new NHS structure of strategic health authorities and primary care/hospital […]
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Fife Signs up for Oasis
Fife Acute Hospitals Trust has awarded a 15-year contract for electronic patient records (EPR) to Siemens Healthcare who will be provide the Oasis EPR system supplied by its British healthcare systems strategic partners Elan Technologies. Oasis will be delivered in the form of e-oasis, Elan’s browser-based EPR that has been designed to simplify the collection […]
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Consultation on Open Source Software (OSS) Strategy Nears End
The NHS information Authority has published a reminder that the consultation period for the Office of the e-Envoy’s draft Government Policy on Open Source Software (OSS) is drawing to a close. The closing date for consultation on the draft policy document, first published in December 2001, is 12 March 2002. This policy will apply to NHS […]
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