10 Ways To Improve NHS IT – a Hospital Doctor’s View
Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, worked in IT before studying medicine. His unusual background prompted E-Health Insider to ask him to list the top 10 improvements he would like to see in healthcare IT. Read on for the result… Until the age of 29 I was a computer programmer working in the City. Then I decided […]
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‘Radical Steps’ Urged to Boost Health Informatics
The British Computer Society (BCS) has warned that unless urgent action is taken 40 years accumulated experience of health informatics may be swept away either by the promise of the "new" or by attrition and inertia caused by the current IT planning blight, placing the NHS IT strategy at risk. In a briefing paper, called […]
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Computerised Guidelines Show No Effect on Asthma and Angina Management
Computerised, evidence-based guidelines showed no effect on the management of adult asthma and angina patients in primary care, according to a study conducted in 60 general practices in north east England. The study reported in the British Medical Journal was conducted by researchers from Newcastle, Aberdeen and City Universities. It was a pragmatic cluster randomised […]
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Combined Government Gateway Review Due for IT Programme
The National NHS IT Programme is scheduled to be submitted to a combined Government Gateway review by the end of October, with a full business case then due to be submitted to Treasury for approval by November. The latest version of the timetable for the National IT Programme was detailed by Jeremy Thorp, the NHS […]
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Medicdirect Launches Doctor Direct Helpline Service
UK health information website Medicdirect which currently supplies many of the leading ISP’s and broadcasters including Freeserve, NTL, GMTV, Telewest and AOL with much of their health channel content, has launched a telephone health helpline service manned by doctors. The new service, called Doctor Direct, forms part of a total revamp of Medicdirect’s content offering, […]
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NAO Praises NHS Direct Implementation
The first national evaluation of NHS Direct, the flagship NHS nurse-led telephone health advice service, concludes that the service has been a success and praises the way the project has been managed and the key IT system procured and implemented. The telephone advice service, which uses a national clinical decision support system, is redirecting up […]
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Misys Wins its Biggest Health IT Contract
UK IT firm Misys plc has signed its largest ever healthcare contract – in a deal to supply an enterprise-wide laboratory information system to Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS), the second largest public health system in the United States. With an initial value of $17.7 million, the contract will see Misys Healthcare […]
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2002 to be Year E-Health Grows Up
As the dust of the dotcom crash clears, 2002 will be the year that the e-health gets down to business and begins to deliver with health providers and pharmaceutical firms realising the value of networked communications. In its Top 10 Healthcare Predictions for 2002, Forrester Research, offers its reading of the tea leaves for what […]
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InferMed Partners with BMJ’s Clinical Evidence
The BMJ Publishing Group has teamed up with InferMed, a leading UK provider of clinical software, to assess the feasibility of developing a system that electronically mimics the process that doctors naturally use to make clinical decisions. The two organisations say their shared objective is to develop an electronic clinical decision ‘support system’ to help […]
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New E-Prescribing Alliance Between Merck-Medco and Cybear
A new alliance in US electronic prescribing will deliver real-time access to medication data to physicians at the point of care. The deal will allow pharmacy benefits manager, Merck-Medco, to gain access to Cybear’s Internet enabled software and service systems, including the Physicians Online portal, its @Rx prescription management system and technology for electronically transmitted […]
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