DH Wants Board-Level Information Leads in New SHAs
The Department of Health has signalled that it wants to see information management and technology represented at the highest levels in the new NHS strategic health authorities (SHAs). Director of research, analysis and information, Sir John Pattison, told the NHS Information Authority’s annual conference that health minister Lord Hunt was “very keen to establish IM&T […]
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MD Consult Donates Online Medical Library to Latvia
Physicians, medical students and other health professionals in Latvia now have access to a comprehensive collection of medical resources available on the Web through MD Consult, a division of Elsevier Science. MD Consult has donated a license for the MD Consult Core Collection to the Medical Research Library of Latvia and its nine branch libraries, […]
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iSOFT promoted to FTSE Index
The UK, Manchester-based healthcare information systems firm iSOFT has been promoted to the City of London’s premier division after being added to the FTSE 250 index. Inclusion in the index reflects the increased value of iSOFT’s shares, following the firm’s flotation in June 2000. Since floating at 110p per share in June 2000 with a […]
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GSK launch Respiratory Channel with Doctors.net.uk
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to support the launch of an online respiratory channel for chest medicine specialists and GPs on Doctors.net.uk, the UK doctor-only online community. The new channel has been developed to provide doctors with interactive information on respiratory medicine. The channel will host a number of online resources, including eContinuing Medical Education, online conferencing […]
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NDAs Could Reinforce Health Records Security
A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) designed to spell out clearly the duty to maintain the confidentiality of patient records could help to prevent breaches of confidence by staff not already bound by the Hippocratic oath or similar professional codes. Dr Janis L. Huston, electronic patient record facilitator for the North London Cancer Network, showed a model […]
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IT Standardisation Difficult, but Vital
Achieving the “robust, flexible and standardised” NHS information system envisaged by health secretary, Alan Milburn, will be difficult while the service continues to act as a loose federation. That was a key message from a London conference on IT and the NHS Plan. The argument was made most strongly by BT Health’s general manager, David […]
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URAC Publishes Guide to E-Health Ethics
URAC, in partnership with the Internet Healthcare Coalition, has published a new guide on e-health ethics. The publication, ‘The New Frontier: Exploring eHealth Ethics’, compiles, for the first time, all the major ethical codes and guidelines for health Web sites. The new book also includes a variety of articles contributed by online health community leaders […]
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Atuline to Launch Europe’s First Virtual Hospital
Finish Novo Group will present its Atuline Virtual Hospital project at the Medica 2001 international medical device trade fair in Düsseldorf. The service is the first virtual hospital to be registered in the European Union. The Atuline Virtual Hospital offers online medical consultation and electronic prescriptions for both individuals’ health care providers. In addition, the […]
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NHS Plus Network Launched
A new NHS network called NHS Plus has been officially launched to market occupational health services to the private sector, generating income for the NHS to invest in health services. The NHS Plus network — backed by a new dedicated NHS Plus Website — is intended to provide the first national forum for people and […]
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NHS Completes Alpha Tests of SNOMED Clinical Terms
SNOMED International, a division of the College of American Pathologists, and the NHS Information Authority have announced they have successfully completed testing of SNOMED (SNOMED CT). This next generation work of terminology combines the expertise of SNOMED RT and the NHS’ Clinical Terms Version 3 (Read Codes) to create the most comprehensive clinical terminology available […]
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