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5 April 2005

Paper records only opt-out available to patients

The government’s policy allowing patients to opt out of the NHS Care Records Service is based on the decision that
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5 April 2005

Computer use embedded in new doctors’ curriculum

The use of modern IT systems and a willingness to use and learn about new technology have been included as
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4 April 2005

Practices make performance data available on web

Practices from four primary care organisations (PCOs) have put performance data online as part of a project to test the
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1 April 2005

New Information Centre launched

The start of the new NHS financial year sees another round of musical chairs with the abolition of the old
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31 March 2005

A knotty problem

How can you get hospital systems to talk to bedside devices? Lorin David Kalisky of Capsule Technologie argues the case
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30 March 2005

Practice manager finds no opt-out from NCRS

A practice manager has tried and failed to prevent her health record, which contains a significant error, being stored in
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30 March 2005

Study shows doctors use PDAs more for admin than care

Doctors in the US are not generally making use of PDAs to improve patient care, and those that do use
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29 March 2005

Theatre Manager goes live at UCLH

University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust has successfully deployed Picis Theatre Manager in 25 operating theatres across five
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29 March 2005

Shedding light

E-Health Insider looks at documents released by NPfIT under FOI and describes how you can also make a request.
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29 March 2005

Emergency care summary set to rollout in Scotland

A project which allows out-of-hours services access to an emergency care summary of patients’ GP records is likely to be
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