BMA calls for exemption on data sharing
The BMA is calling for confidential health information to be exempt from new government legislation which will allow sharing of personal data across Whitehall departments.
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Clinical Solutions gets a Mentor
Clinical Solutions has signed a three year deal with primary care IT supplier EMIS to integrate EMIS’s Mentor drug database into its decision support software. The deal means the Mentor Drug Database Module will be integrated into Clinical Solutions’ IntefleCS Face to Face software, providing access for clinicians working in urgent care centres, walk-in centres […]
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NHS Alliance promotes patient records
The NHS Alliance is promoting real-time access to medical records, claiming this will help meet the drive towards patient self-management as well as saving the NHS money. The Alliance says there is evidence to show that record sharing improves relationships between clinicians and patients as well as improving efficiency and the safety and accuracy of […]
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ContactPoint goes live
The government has launched its national children’s database, ContactPoint, which will provide demographic data on every child in the country plus the name and address of any professional working with them. The controversial database has been criticised by civil liberties groups and some children’s campaigners, but backed by other children’s organisations and both the Royal […]
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United Healthcare settles on ‘fixed’ database claims
Two of the largest US health insurers have agreed deals to pay tens of millions of dollars to create independent claims rates databases, following an investigation into claims that databases had been rigged to manipulate payments. United Healthcare last week last week agreed to pay €221 ($350) million to settle three class-action lawsuits claiming the […]
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Data watchdog urged to examine legality of NHS database
A GP who is campaigning against the NHS Care Records Services is calling on the watchdog for NHS data to examine the legality of the government’s proposals for the NHS database. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Warwickshire, has written a 15 page report for the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care […]
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NI completes barcode presciptions project
Northern Ireland has announced that it has successfully completed its 2D barcoded prescription project. The Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System (EPES) was launched just over two years ago, when a £6.8m contract was awarded to Hewlett-Packard to provide 2D bar-coded prescriptions to counter fraud. The system works by printing paper prescriptions with a two-dimensional barcode […]
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Software replaces fax and phone organ allocation
NHS Blood and Transplant is preparing to roll out a new software system to speed up the process of allocating organs for transplant.
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Watchdog calls for safety culture
The Healthcare Commission has urged the NHS to generate better comparative information on safe care and outcomes and to set up a national database of serious untoward incidents. In its final report on the State of Healthcare in England and Wales, the Commission says there is much about the health service that is positive and […]
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