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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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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