Telemedicine Holds Promise of Improved Access to Healthcare
Telemedicine holds the promise of improving access to health care – especially in areas where there are geographical barriers – and of reducing costs, but it suffers from the glamorous image associated with using high technology, a major clinical review in the British Medical Journal concludes. The reviewer, telemedicine expert, Richard Wootton, looked at 969 […]
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Online Toolkit Aids GP Appraisals
An online toolkit to help GPs through the appraisals process was demonstrated at the EMIS National User Group conference at Warwick University. The Appraisals Toolkit at http://www.appraisals.nhs.uk, developed at the Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics in Newcastle (SCHIN), was presented by GP education lead, Dr Paul Robinson, who explained that the aim was to provide […]
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PDA Programme Cuts Nursing Paperwork by
A group of American community-based nurses say that using personal digital assistants cuts time spent on their "paperwork" by up to 50% and improves both the speed and accuracy of documentation. The programme, which is attracting international attention, also makes decision support software, backed by extensive medical resources, available to the nurses while they are […]
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