EHealth Insider diary,
All progress has its drawbacks and so it was this week that the world was warned of the dangers of ‘laptop thigh.’ This, the BBC website reported, is a "nasty rash" that can be caused by the heat from a laptop "especially if used against bare skin for hours at a time." An article in […]
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Expert view: Martin Ellis
The chair of the Intellect Clinical Safety Committee discusses recent changes to European regulations that are likely to affect healthcare IT providers and outlines how the body will be working to advise manufacturers about them.
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Another view: Dr Neil Paul
EHI Primary Care’s resident GP columnist muses on a ‘viewing of the GP record by authorised third parties project.’
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EHealth Insider diary,
One of the more baffling claims in the ‘Liberating the NHS’ white paper is that it will turn the health service into “the largest social enterprise sector in the world”. The claim is baffling because the paper has very little to say about social enterprises (aka “John Lewis-style organisations”). However, Social Enterprise magazine has discovered […]
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Putting on the glitz
The winners of this year’s EHI Awards were “thrilled” and “amazed” – when they weren’t totally overcome. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Uncertain times
Fiona Barr finds that respondents to EHI Primary Care’s survey of strategic health authority and primary care trust staff are worried about the impact of the NHS white paper.
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Radio times
NHS staff often hear their fate on the Today programme. The latest round of NHS reforms was no exception. Fiona Barr analyses an EHI Primary Care survey of their impact on morale and jobs.
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Door ways
Portals are suddenly all the rage, but they present some familiar interoperability challenges, says Malcolm Newbury, chair of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise.
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Free our data
The post-white paper NHS is going to need better information at all levels. But who will provide it? And are IT systems available that are up to the job?
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iSOFT sponsored feature 2010
Medication errors are patient safety incidents involving medicines in which there has been an error in the process of prescribing, dispensing, preparing, administering, monitoring, or providing medicine advice, regardless of whether any harm occurred.
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