GPs Believe EPRs Will Improve Patient Care
A major new survey of the attitudes Yorkshire GPs to electronic patient records in primary and community care has revealed that 60% of them believe that the introduction of electronic records will improve patient care. However, almost half (48%) of them say they either will not, or don’t know, whether they will be able to […]
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Mobile Mental Health EPR a European First
Mental Health services are rarely seen as being on the glamorous side of information technology in healthcare but a groundbreaking Dutch project has shown the benefits of providing mental health professionals with the very latest in mobile technology. Backed by the specialist Robert Fleury hospital in The Hague, a project to develop mobile electronic patient […]
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Top Effectiveness Prize for Wirral
An automated dispensing system that has saves staff time and reduces drug dispensing errors took the top prize in the 2002 Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards. The system was the brainchild of a team at the Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, one of the UK centres most closely associated with pioneering IT developments. The team developed new […]
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Review Underway to Get EPR ‘Back on Track’
Jon Hoeksma A major review of Electronic Patient Records (EPR) is underway by the Department of Health to get the programme back on track and the Information Policy Unit (IPU) has at last acknowledged the early EPR targets will not be met. E-Health Insider has learned that a review of the EPR programme is underway […]
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Government Urged to be Patient on Patient Records
The Government should accept that the 2005 target for electronic patient records will be missed and not be panicked into a national big bang approach that could have disastrous consequences for the health service, leading IT suppliers have warned. Having already accepted that the 2002 target for 35% of NHS trusts to have level three […]
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Danish Province Blazes Trail on EPR
Most healthcare systems in the industrialised world are struggling to develop or implement different models of electronic patient records, with the UK together with Australia, Canada, New Zeeland and the Netherlands often cited as being world leaders. But one of the most advanced and widespread EPR programmes in use is in the Danish province of […]
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Community Nurses to Expose Poor IT Provision
Trusts that lag behind in providing modern IT for community nurses will be named and shamed by the nurses’ union, the Community Practitioners and Health Visitors’ Association (CPHVA) as part of its Making IT Happen campaign. A survey of local representatives is being carried out to find out how many community nurses are linked up […]
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Electronic Prescriptions Project Schedule Under Threat
One of the key figures behind the development of electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) in the UK has publicly questioned whether the Department of Health (DH) can achieve its target of rolling out ETP nationally by 2006. Ewan Davis, chairman of PharMed, which is leading the Transcript consortium — one of three approved ETP pilots […]
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Primary Care Organisations at Crossroads on IT
New guidance on information and information systems for primary care organisations produced by the Primary Care Information Modernisation Programme (PCIMP) concludes that the NHS stands at a crossroads in the development of primary and community care information systems The guidance, read alongside a newly published review of the primary care clinical systems market carried out […]
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Videophones to Link Deaf, Interpreters and Health Professionals
A new remote sign language interpretation service which uses a network of videophones to provide interpretation services in consultations between health professionals and deaf people, has been launched by the Leicester Centre for Deaf People. The telecare initiative, backed by Leicestershire Health Authority, is the first such videophone sign translation service to be provided by […]
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