Aus looks at opt-out for national EPR
Australia is to consider moving to an opt-out approach to for its Personally Controlled eHealth Record scheme, according to the country’s top health chief information officer.
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Rotherham’s revival
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons after an IT implementation went awry. But the trust is back on track – and a wiser place too, Linda Davidson discovers.
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Ascribe users told to ‘plan do, review’
“Plan, do, review” and spend more time looking at healthcare outcomes, Ascribe’s executive chairman advises users of his company’s systems.
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PACS managers up for education
Eight out of ten PACS managers would be willing to undergo official education for their role if it was made available, a survey discovered.
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Radiologists ‘face battery hen future’
Outsourcing powered by technology will be the death of radiology as we know it in this country, a debate at UKRC concluded.
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Group to investigate dose info demands
A stakeholder group is to be convened to identify the information about radiation doses that trusts need to gather automatically, UKRC heard.
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GE Healthcare invests $2 billion in IT
GE Healthcare today announced plans to invest $2 billion over the next five years to accelerate the development of innovative software for healthcare systems and applications.
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Tablets here to stay in radiology
The shift to mobile health is underway, is global, human and accelerating, a session on tablet computing at ECR 2013 heard.
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Reports interrogated at ECR 2013
Novel IT tools can make a positive contribution to efficiency in the radiology department – but good human communication is needed too, a session at ECR 2013 in Vienna heard.
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Child protection database plans revived
A fresh £8.6m initiative to co-ordinate NHS and social services data to improve child protection has been announced by the government.
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