New logo identifies safe online pharmacy
One in four GPs have treated patients for adverse reactions to medicines bought online, according to a survey. The poll of 483 GPs carried out by GP newspaper found that 25% reported treating patients for adverse reactions to drugs bought on the web and a further 8% said they may have done so. Dr Bill […]
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Germany’s electronic health card stalls
The introduction of electronic health cards in Germany has been stalled because doctors are refusing to buy the necessary equipment to read them.
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Audit Commission criticises data quality
A report published by the Audit Commission has concluded that data quality is still “often not what it needs to be to meet the demands now being placed upon it.” The report, Figures You Can Trust: Data Quality in the NHS, says that although there have been some improvements since its 2004 report on Data […]
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King’s Fund launches primary care inquiry
The King’s Fund has launched an 18-month inquiry into primary care in England that will aim to produce a set of measures to assess the quality of care provided by different GP practices. The King’s Fund said there was “remarkably little information” currently available on the core activities of GPs, such as referral, prescribing and diagnosis, and […]
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Tories would ‘end monopoly’ of NHS Choices
The Conservative Party would remove NHS Choices from Department of Health control and force it to compete on the same terms as other healthcare information providers. In a document promising An NHS Information Revolution to Save Lives, the party says NHS Choices is failing to get adequate information to managers, clinicians and patients and that […]
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EMRs named top priority in HIMSS survey
Implementing electronic medical records has become the top priority for senior healthcare information professionals, a major US survey has shown.
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East Kent cuts turn around times with SRC
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has been able to reduce cancer diagnosis times by deploying digital dictation with speech recognition from SRC. The new technology is allowing pathologists to dictate results in real-time. As a result, histology reporting turnaround times have been cut from a week to often the same day. Paul Williams, […]
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EMIS Web to receive CfH approval by autumn
EMIS Web, the next generation clinical system from GP system supplier EMIS, is likely to get NHS Connecting for Health assurance approval by September or October.
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World’s first kids medical website announced
Medikidz has announced it will launch the world’s first dedicated children’s medical website in July.
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Government ‘remains confident’ in NPfIT
The Department of Health has said that it “remains confident in the potential of both Cerner’s Millennium and iSoft’s Lorenzo to work effectively” once development and testing are completed.
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