Evercare pilots highlight need for better data
Case management will not get off the ground unless PCTs, acute trusts and GPs improve their data management and quality, a report for the Department of Health has shown. The report by UnitedHealth Europe assessing its nine Evercare pilot sites funded by the DH last year uncovered significant issues with data quality and access to […]
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Do no harm
Peter Singleton of Cambridge Health Informatics considers the case of a patient who tried to opt out of electronic recording. Efforts to preserve confidentiality go back to Hippocrates, he argues.
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Legal issues with GP data transfer mooted at HC2005
GPs who move their electronic patient record data to new systems may have to keep the old ones running concurrently for legal reasons, it was suggested at the primary care forum at Healthcare Computing 2005. Dr Glyn Hayes, chair of the British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum, who spoke at the ‘Primary Care in the world […]
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Positive input
EHI Primary Care talks to the clinical director of PRIMIS about recent improvements in GP clinical data.
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Brent goes live with Graphnet drug action team solution
Brent Primary Care Trust, north west London, has gone live with a new system developed by Graphnet to enable drug action teams (DATs) to meet reporting targets. DATs, across the UK are responsible for drug strategies for adults and they have report to the National Treatment Agency to obtain funding. The new system, developed by […]
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EMIS users urged to protest about systems choice
The head of the EMIS National User Group (NUG) has written to all EMIS users calling on them to lobby their MPs, local Primary Care Trusts or Local Medical Committees to express their concerns about National Programme for IT (NPfIT) strategy on choice of GP systems. The letter from Dr Manpreet Pujara, chair of EMIS NUG, […]
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Patients need access to electronic records, say academics
Patients can and should have access to their electronic health records, in order to keep them up-to-date and accurate, a year-long study from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) has found. The study, prepared by Claire Harris and Ruth Boaden on behalf of UMIST’s Health Organisations Research Centre, suggests that the […]
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Parliamentary briefing paper sets out challenges for NPfIT
A new parliamentary briefing paper on the National Programme for IT has highlighted stakeholder involvement, communications, "imposing change on a highly devolved NHS", and the complexity of the programme each as potential areas of concern for the success of the project. ‘New NHS IT’ a Parliamentary briefing note prepared by the Parliamentary Office of Science […]
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Harrogate GPs get order communications
GPs in Harrogate are now able to request pathology tests online using an order communications system implemented by Anglia Healthcare Systems and EMIS. The new system enables test requests ordered by GPs and the subsequent reports generated to be electronically linked to secondary care systems and integrated into the GP patient record. Roll out of […]
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StHAs report improved data quality with eDQRS
Positive reports from NHS users of the web-based service, eDQRS, say it is a major asset for improving data quality within ClearNET and the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data warehouse. The service, supplied by McKesson and Ardentia, has been available to all of England’s 28 strategic health authorities (StHAs) since August 2003 to check the […]
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