Diabetes prescribing decision support tool launched
A new computerised prescribing decision support tool that will provide healthcare professionals with patient-specific, evidence-based support in the management of Type 2 diabetes will be launched today by academics at Keele University. The tool has been developed by the university’s Department of Medicines Management and delivers tailored management recommendations by cross-referencing individual patient profiles with […]
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500th practice goes live with SystmOne GP system
StowHealth Centre has become the 500th practice to go live with the SystmOne integrated GP record system provided by TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) and delivered by the CSC Alliance for NHS Connecting for Health. The new GP system, which provides a shared GP clinical record, will support the delivery of care for the 15,500 […]
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Patients can carry records on secure smartcard
Patients in London can now have their medical histories handy wherever they are, by uploading them onto a new USB plug-in smartcard called the Health eCard. Buying the card should enable patients to show their records to any medical professional, saving time and improving consultations when their notes are not available. Jul Kornbluth, managing director […]
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Rewiring Long Term Care
As major work starts on ‘demonstrators’ for e-enabled long term care, Colin Jervis analyses the challenge.
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Local sealed envelopes ‘probably safer’
A risk analysis conducted for NHS Connecting for Health has concluded that patient care would probably be safer using locally held sealed envelopes rather than storing them on the NHS data spine. The recommendations in the internal document, written by risk management company Det Norske Veritas and delivered to CfH in September, would seem to […]
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One in five trusts below standard on patient information
One in five NHS trusts in England do not store, use and dispose of information about patients to an agreed NHS standard. The deficit comes to light in the Healthcare Commission’s first annual health check on all 570 NHS trusts in England which was published yesterday. In the annual health check trusts are awarded ratings […]
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South Worcestershire signs for Care Enhance Call Centre
South Worcestershire Primary Care Trust has selected an advanced call centre triage system for its GP out-of-hours (OOH) service which it also plans to use for remotely managing patients with long term conditions. The new system, called the Care Enhance Call Centre (CECC) will enable the out-of-hours service provider to triage any calls they receive directing callers to the […]
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Patients give feedback on health info sites
Patients suffering from long-term conditions and their carers feel they benefit from regularly updated, information-rich support websites but think there is room for improvement in many instances, according to a detailed study carried out by University College London. People with chronic illnesses such as diabetes or hepatitis C, carers of those with Alzheimer’s and […]
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Information tools helping to combat diabetes
Smart uses of information and technology in the management of diabetes are highlighted in a new report on progress in combating the disease. The report, Turning the Corner: Improving Diabetes Care, is a review of the national service framework for diabetes’ implementation. National clinical director for diabetes, Dr Sue Roberts, says there have been real improvements […]
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Birmingham ‘OwnHealth’ project begins
Up to 2000 patients with long term conditions are to be enrolled in a telephone-based care management system from this week as part of a programme funded jointly by the NHS and a pharmaceutical company. Birmingham OwnHealth, an ‘assertive care management programme’, was launched in Eastern Birmingham East and Birmingham North PCTs this week and […]
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