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30 November 2005

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
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7 November 2005

Lessons for NPfIT from ‘wild ride’ to US failure

A study of the ‘wild ride’ towards a failed implementation of a new electronic medical record system found a ‘transient
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10 May 2005

GP says clinical consultation not delivering

A GP involved in advising Connecting for Health has claimed the programme is being mismanaged with professional input ignored and
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21 April 2005

Kaiser to end ‘wobbly’ medicine

Doctors working without computerised systems are working in the “operational dark ages”, according to George Halvorson, chief executive officer of
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4 January 2005

Virtual chaperone keeps watch on clinicians

Recording devices such as a ‘virtual chaperone’ for clinicians have been developed in Imperial College, London in the hope that
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20 August 2004

Doctors should see patients by e-mail, researchers say

Research published in the BMJ today has found that doctors and patients are both missing out on the benefits that
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17 May 2004

GP systems need to improve safety features, says NPSA

The safety features of computing systems currently in use in about three quarters of UK general practices have clinically important
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25 February 2004

MDU warns doctors of picture messaging dangers

The Medical Defence Union has advised doctors to think twice before using picture mobile phones to take and send digital
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25 September 2003

UK Doctors Still ‘Out of Office’ to Patients Online

Email may be the most powerful new communications tool since the telephone. But despite its clear potential in health, the
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4 January 2002

InferMed Partners with BMJ’s Clinical Evidence

The BMJ Publishing Group has teamed up with InferMed, a leading UK provider of clinical software, to assess the feasibility
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