NLH to close clinical answers website
The National Library for Health (NLH) is to close its online clinical question and answer service this week despite protests from its users. The Primary Care Question Answering Service has handled more than 6,000 queries from GPs, pharmacists and other primary care staff since it was set up in 2004 but will cease operation from […]
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Bainbridge warns of need for telecare
Health and social care services have five years to develop the telehealth and telecare services they will need to cope with an ageing population, Dr Mike Bainbridge, NHS Connecting for Health’s clinical architect, has warned. Speaking at a fringe session at this year’s NHS Confederation conference, Dr Bainbridge said that ageing combined with an increasing […]
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Bosch Hospital to introduce AiDKlinik
Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart has introduced the electronic medication module AiDKlinik to improve medication safety. The tool offers sophisticated medication alerts, for example warnings in case of clinically relevant interactions and dosing aids for children or patients with impaired renal function. The software was developed by ‘Dosing’, a spin-off of Heidelberg University. “We started […]
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Central NHS cancer research database launched
A new £4m NHS National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN), which will bring together around 22m NHS cancer records to create the largest patient-based cancer research resource in the world is to be created by the Department of Health and several cancer charities. The project, which will be overseen by the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), […]
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EHI’s news roundup 20.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 20 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news StreamOn.net launches video e-learning for healthcare Belfast company, StreamOn.net, has launched a video based e-learning site for healthcare professionals, in partnership with leading UK professional bodies The website aims to […]
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WHO calls for sharing of information in Europe
European countries should do a better job of assessing the performance of their health care systems and sharing that information with other states, World Health Organisation (WHO) officials have said, ahead of a ministerial conference next week. WHO’s regional office for Europe is holding its first ministerial conference on health systems, with the theme "health […]
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Call for new urgent care phone number
The Ambulance Service Network (ASN) has called for a new national telephone number for urgent non-life threatening calls, which would use real-time data to ensure patients needs are accurately recorded and paramedics have all the information, in its vision for emergency and acute care. Representative of all ambulance trusts in the UK as part of […]
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Patient information easily obtained by phone
A team of doctors has warned that confidential patient information can be easily obtained from GP practices over the telephone after getting patient data from 45 practices without any verification in more than a third of cases. Dr Ed Fitzgerald and colleagues from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust contacted 45 different GP practices to obtain […]
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Lorenzo slipped ‘months ago’ say reports
A confidential report on the development of iSoft’s Lorenzo system has revealed delivery deadlines actually slipped several months ago, according to national media coverage. The Guardian newspaper and Computer Weekly magazine claim a leaked report produced by CSC, local service provider to the North, Midlands and East Programme for IT clearly states deadlines laid out […]
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Thieves break hospital security to take laptops
Six laptop computers, containing the data of around 20,000 patients have been stolen from a London hospital by thieves who broke into a locked cabinet in a secure room. The laptops were updated with the patient data following problems with a central computer network at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and were stored in offices at […]
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