Vote now for your champion of the year
Voting opens today for the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year, a special category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009, in association with BT.
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Reported drug errors increase, says NPSA
The incidence of reported drug errors leading to avoidable deaths and patient harm is on the increase, according to a new National Patient Safety Agency report.
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Bupa carries out SWIFT migration
UK health insurer, Bupa, has completed a large scale migration of data as part of the consolidation of legacy applications onto SWIFT, its new unified administrative platform.
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Audit Commission warns on poor records
The Audit Commission has called on organisations at all levels of the NHS to improve the standard of record keeping and clinical coding. In its second annual analysis of the national clinical coding audit programme that is run as part of the Payment by Results Data Assurance Framework, the spending watchdog says that errors continue […]
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Personal view: Mary Hawking
Time to change the record?
E-Health Insider’s Sarah Bruce gauges reaction to the Conservatives’ response to the independent review of NHS IT.
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EHI’s industry round up 7.8.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers forthcoming events, system deployments and other developments in healthcare IT.
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KPMG to provide digital strategy for NHS
The Department of Health has commissioned management consultants KPMG to report on a vision for a digital strategy for the NHS.
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Surgical data reduces mortality
A study has revealed that since surgeons started publishing data on outcomes for people undergoing heart operations, mortality rates have dropped dramatically. The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery studied 400,000 operations performed over the past five years, and found that death rates in coronary artery surgery fell by 21% and in aortic valve replacement operations by […]
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Mid Yorks digitises 1.9m records
Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust has begun converting more than 1.9m patient records into digital files as part of a £2.3m contract with the EDM Group. The project, which will run for two years, will see the trust convert around 72m sheets of paper by scanning and turning them into tif or pdf format. At […]
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