Patients need assurance on online health records
Patients need to be convinced that electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are safe and will benefit them, a group of leading academics have warned. The academics argue that although ePHRs, such as the UK’s HealthSpace, have huge potential patients have not yet been convinced and the business case is still to be established. They say […]
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BMJ Health Intelligence launched
The BMJ Group has launched a web-based public health resource including data, cost effectiveness information plus information on local projects, policies and guidelines. BMJ Health Intelligence is being offered to primary care trusts, local authorities and GP practices via an annual subscription based on the size of their population. The BMJ Group says the online […]
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GP records play key role in most popular paper
A database of anonymised GP records was the source for the most popular research paper of 2005 published by the British Medical Journal. The study, which showed that ibuprofen and other commonly used painkillers could increase the risk of a heart attack, was published in June 2005 in the BMJ. The online version of the […]
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BMJ says it will have to charge for BestTreatments
The BMJ Group says the Department of Health’s withdrawl of funding from its award-winning website BestTreatments means it will now probably have to charge patients for access for the service. The website has been available through NHS Direct online since 2004 and provides information on more than 1500 treatments. The BMJ say it was developed to help communication […]
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Computers – the greatest medical breakthrough?
Computers have been shortlisted in a British Medical Journal poll to determine the greatest medical breakthrough since 1840. They are one of 15 medical advances, chosen by BMJ readers, that have made the list to find the greatest medical breakthrough since the journal was launched 166 years ago. Other contenders for the title include anaesthesia, antibiotics, the risks […]
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CfH confirm switch to Prodigy for clinical evidence
Connecting for Health have confirmed they have awarded a five year contract to provide Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) to a consortium comprising the Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics(SCHIN) and international medical publishers EBSCO. As E-Health Insider Primary Care exclusively revealed last week NHS Connecting for Health ended its agreement with BMJ Publishing Group on 30 […]
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CfH wields axe on funding Clinical Evidence
Clinical Evidence will no longer be freely available to clinicians in England after NHS Connecting for Health failed to agree a new contract with its publishers. From January clinicians in England who want access to Clinical Evidence, the international source of the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical interventions, will either have […]
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Mobile version of Clinical Evidence launched
The BMJ Publishing Group and US knowledge management systems developers, Unbound Medicine, have launched a new mobile resource which gives clinicians full clinical evidence notes from the BMJ Clinical Evidence database The device will help clinicians make evidence-based decisions at a patient’s bedside using a personal digital assistant (PDA), allowing them to quickly review the […]
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Fewer flights
Identifying “frequent flyers” – patients at high risk of emergency admission – will soon be possible thanks to a new predictive tool that could save PCTs money
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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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