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2 December 2010

More doubt cast on impact of info

Presenting high quality data to patients is unlikely to directly drive improvements in the quality of care, according to a
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17 November 2010

NHS PHR HealthSpace fails to deliver

Patients have found the government’s personal health record project HealthSpace neither useful nor easy to use and only a tiny
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3 September 2010

NPfIT study urges ‘middle-out’ approach

The largest study of the national roll-out of the NHS Care Records Service to date has concluded that its top down,
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30 June 2010

Royal Free builds Cerner checklists

The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has developed a fully auditable set of checklists and actions for clinicians working with
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17 June 2010

Expert view: Emma Byrne

A member of the UCL team that reviewed the Summary Care Record looks beyond the numbers and behind the headlines
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12 May 2010

Payments linked to clinical quality

Removing financial incentives for clinical quality can lead to a drop in performance, a study has found.
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20 April 2010

My vision for appraisals

Our columnist Dr Neil Paul has some ideas about how IT could better support appraisals.
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26 February 2010

EHI’s industry round-up: appointments

This special edition of the EHI industry round-up covers appointments made by major suppliers in the healthcare IT industry and
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30 September 2009

QoF income falls trigger survey row

GP practices’ achievement on the Quality and Outcomes Framework fell across the UK in the last financial year, costing the
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8 July 2009

Research backs QRISK

The QRISK formula for identifying patients most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease should replace the Framingham risk score in
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