DH chooses 40 bodies for information accreditation
A total of 40 organisations have been selected to test the Department of Health’s information accreditation scheme that will award quality marks to bodies producing health and social care information. The initiative will ‘kite mark’ information producers, accrediting the source of information rather than the information itself, to make it easier for people to be […]
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Latest BNFC interfaces with NHS dm+d
The new online edition of the latest BNF for Children – BNFC 2008 – will include a new interface to the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d). The BNF says this is intended to provide healthcare professionals with seamless access to BNFC content on the internet using NHS dm+d codes, “helping them to make […]
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New GP leads aim to connect
Dr Peter Short, one of two new GP clinical leads just appointed by Connecting for Health, is clear about how he will measure his success in the job.
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BMJ Clinical Evidence to integrate with Millennium
The BMJ Group has signed an agreement with Cerner to integrate its medical information database, Clinical Evidence, with Cerner’s Millennium software. The first component of the deal will be the introduction of order entry sets for the hospital sector. This is likely to be piloted outside the UK first, as the database is not in […]
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Cerner to integrate BNF into Millennium
Cerner is to integrate the British National Formulary’s (BNF) medicines information with the Cerner Millennium software for hospital systems in the UK. Millennium is the software selected for delivery to NHS hospitals in London and the South of England under the NHS IT programme. Work is underway to deliver Cerner Millennium users with full access […]
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BMJ Group buys exam site
The BMJ Group has bought OnExamination.com, a specialist website dealing with online exam preparation for doctors, medical students and other healthcare professionals. The website will be integrated into BMJ Learning which provides online learning modules and masterclasses for 95,000 registered users. BMJ claims it is the UK market leader in clinical events for general practice […]
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EC may reconsider patient information rules
The European Commission is considering tabling legislation next year that would change the rules on the information that drug companies can provide to patients, according to the British Medical Journal. The expectation is that there will be some relaxation of the rules which strictly control the information that drug companies can offer patients and restrict […]
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QoF architects call for changes
The architects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) have called for a raft of changes to the scheme as the House of Commons Health Committee prepares to consider how QoF could be used to reduce health inequalities. Prof Martin Roland, director of The National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, led work on developing […]
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QoF: measuring performance, missing the point
Mechanistic management strategies – embedded into computer software – become fixed and static presenting the danger that innovation will be stifled, according to a critical analysis of the Quality Outcomes Framework (QoF) for measuring GP performance. The analysis of QoF, published in the BMJ, was completed by an influential team of researchers: GP, Iona Heath; Professor […]
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New information governance board announced
Members of the new National Information Governance Board for health and social care in England, the body who will be responsible for ownership of the Care Record Guarantee have been named by the Department of Health Chair of Connecting for Health’s Care Record Development Board (CRDB), Harry Cayton will continue as the new chair of […]
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