E-learning for foundation doctors launched
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) Publishing Group has launched a new broadband learning service for junior foundation doctors and their clinical tutors. The BMJ Learning Foundation Programme is the first service aimed at helping foundation level 1 and 2 junior doctors with meeting the curriculum requirements of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Department […]
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Teachers’ TV offers e-learning lesson to clinicians
Medical professions could learn a great deal from the education sector in video-based online learning, particularly from projects such as Teachers’ TV, a symposium in London organised by the BMA stresses today. The TV channel, which delivers full-length streaming video online that aims to help teachers and other members of the education sector further their […]
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BMJ’s evidence-based consumer info site launched
Consumer health information provider, BMJ BestTreatments, has officially launched its public website saying the service is proving a great hit with patients. A spokesperson for the service told E-Health Insider: “The site has been available for a while, but we needed to find a point at which to launch it. We have recently revamped it and […]
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Common exception reporting standards called for
Exception reporting rates for the Quality and Outcomes Framework need to be subject to uniform standards to ensure as many patients as possible benefit from the framework, a GP has argued this week in the British Medical Journal. Dr Stephen Corcoran, a GP in north London, says in his letter that variations in exception reporting […]
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Lessons for NPfIT from ‘wild ride’ to US failure
A study of the ‘wild ride’ towards a failed implementation of a new electronic medical record system found a ‘transient climate of conflict’ associated with the adoption of the new way of working. The qualitative study, reported in the British Medical Journal, was completed during an implementation by Kaiser Permanente, the US’ largest non-profit healthcare […]
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GP says clinical consultation not delivering
A GP involved in advising Connecting for Health has claimed the programme is being mismanaged with professional input ignored and that the Choose and Book software is potentially dangerous. Dr Nigel de Kare Silver, a GP in Neasden, north London, and IT lead for Brent Primary Care Trust, has outlined his concerns in an article […]
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Kaiser to end ‘wobbly’ medicine
Doctors working without computerised systems are working in the “operational dark ages”, according to George Halvorson, chief executive officer of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals. Speaking at the World Health Care Congress in Chantilly, France, he outlined his organisation’s $3 billion project to create a fully computerised information tool kit including an automated patient […]
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Virtual chaperone keeps watch on clinicians
Recording devices such as a ‘virtual chaperone’ for clinicians have been developed in Imperial College, London in the hope that they will improve the accountability of health services and also protect staff should something go wrong. The chaperone project, led and patented by Professor Sir Ara Darzi, Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College, was […]
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Doctors should see patients by e-mail, researchers say
Research published in the BMJ today has found that doctors and patients are both missing out on the benefits that e-mail can bring to healthcare provision due to lack of infrastructure and motivation. Dr Josip Car from Imperial College and Professors Aziz Sheikh from the University of Edinburgh, found that e-mail could increase access to care, particularly […]
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GP systems need to improve safety features, says NPSA
The safety features of computing systems currently in use in about three quarters of UK general practices have clinically important deficiencies, according to research funded by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). Researchers writing in the British Medical Journal say that all four of the systems tested may fail to signal a warning when a GP user might […]
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