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Ex-programmer and clinician Dr Andrew Harrison invites comments on his wishlist for an ideal test result software package.
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Evidence-based medicine search engine now free
A search engine aimed at health professionals looking for clinical research literature to support patient care will become free-to-access this month. The Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) database has been running since 1997, but money spent on improving the search facility, led to it converting to a subscription-only basis, three years ago. Directors John Bassey […]
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Google announces healthcare search clustering
Google has announced that people looking for healthcare terms on its front page will now have the option to see a list of reviewed links, and sort their results by treatment or symptoms. In Google Co-op, if users search for a particular symptom, illness or associated keyword on the main page of the site, they will […]
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Record-keeping weakest link in QoF scores
The worst performing indicator group in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) last year was records and information, according to the English QoF data published last week. Practices did best in the clinical and patient experience domains of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and not as well in the organisational area, the figures reveal. Achievement […]
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NPfIT’s new name already taken
The announcement that the NHS National Programme for IT is to become Connecting for Health appears to have immediately run into teething problems with its chosen name already owned by a US health IT research foundation. A simple Google search reveals that Connecting for Health is a registered service mark of the Markle Foundation www.connectingforhealth.org, […]
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NHSmail, a doctor’s tale
Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, who was a computer programmer before switching to medicine, signed-up with NHSmail recently. Here’s his description of the “not entirely positive” experience. My existing email service is about to be discontinued, so it is fortuitous that the first application delivered by the National Programme is an "email address for life" for […]
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