Discharge letter targets will create two-tier care
The NHS Alliance claims government targets for discharge letters will create a two tier system on a critical patient safety issue because the obligation will not apply to most foundation trusts. The organisation, which represents PCTs and GP practices, has been campaigning to improve the timeliness and quality of discharge summaries and last year called […]
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Evolution, not revolution
Jens Naumann, head of the German industrial association of health IT companies, talks to Philipp Gratzel about the forthcoming roll out of electronic health cards.
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German smartcard rollout brought forward
In a surprise move, the German health IT agency, Gematik, has accelerated the schedule of the German national smartcard project to April 2008.
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Drug test
In his second article in the series, Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics service, looks at specific issues in electronic prescribing and drug administration.
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GPs say they are not being listened to
Lack of consultation and the threat to GPs existing computer systems are the biggest failings of the National Programme for IT and the ones that has angered most GPs, according to feedback from GPs who were questioned in the latest survey by Medix-UK. Out of the 900 doctors who took part in the survey, 191 […]
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Placing XML at the Heart of Hospital Trust’s IM&T Strategy
Following E-Health Insider s XML in health feature two week s ago, Philip Firth, IM&T Strategy Implementation Manager at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust, sets out how his trust has used XML to develop extremely low cost ‘best of breed’ solutions to integrate systems and improve clinical care. Information Technology at Wrightington, Wigan & […]
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