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Clinician Involvement Essential in IT Planning Says BMJ

The essential importance of involving frontline clinicians in the evolution of their workplace information systems is underlined this week in
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E-prescribing Arrives for Out-of-Hours GPs

A major step towards electronic prescribing for out-of-hours (OOH) doctors in England has been taken with the launch of new
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Healthcare Interoperability Forum in ‘Abeyance’

The Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF), an industry group of leading system suppliers focused on developing common standards, has gone
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US SNOMED Licence Raises Questions Over NHS Deal

A $32.4m contract signed by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the US National Library of Medicine will make
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PDAs or Tablet PCs? – The debate continues…

Last week Dr Andrew Harrison wrote about his experience of using a Tablet PC on the wards – The Tablet
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Granger Tells NHS Boards to Take on IT

A sign of the times was provided last week when it was standing room only at the NHS Confederation’s annual
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Open Source: PCTs Must Continue to Offer Choice of Systems

In the new slot for opinion and comment Dr Nilesh Jain of Torex Health takes up the question of GPs
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The Tablet PC on Test

Hospital doctor and former computer programmer, Andrew Harrison, has been testing a Tablet PC on the wards with some interesting
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Safety Gains Available from IT

IT can substantially improve the safety of medical care but few of the technologies likely to achieve this are implemented,
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GPC Chair Pledges Practices Will Retain Choice

Dr John Chisolm, chairman of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) General Practitioners Committee (GPC) has pledged to fight to defend
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