Multilex Announces Enhanced Sensitivity Checking
First DataBank Europe , the provider of point-of-care databases has launched Enhanced Sensitivity Checking as a new feature of its Multilex Drug Data File Multilex DDF). The new feature offers a more sophisticated way to highlight potential drug – patient sensitivity safety issues to clinicians, a key requirement in reducing medication errors. Previously, within electronic […]
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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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SureScript Completes E-Prescribing Agreements
SureScript Systems has completed a series of agreements to introduce a common electronic prescribing system that will cover most US drug stores belonging to pharmacy chains. The e-pharmacy organisation was established as a joint venture by the National Community Pharmacists Association and the National Association of Chain Drug Stores — which between them represent 55,000 independent […]
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US Healthcare Slow to Adopt IT
“The most dangerous instrument in medicine is the fountain pen,” according to group president of McKesson, Duncan James, interviewed in a BusinessWeek round up of US healthcare technology. The influential magazine and its online service concludes – as many have before – that healthcare has been very slow to adopt information technology that could improve […]
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Data Grid Announced for UK Mammography Research
IBM, Oxford University and the U.K. government have announced plans to build a distributed computing network, or next generation ‘data grid’, to share and store mammograms among health care providers and researchers The aim is to enable early screening and diagnosis of breast cancer, and to allow medical professionals to collaborate and share information that […]
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NHS Information Charter Needed Says Consumers Association
The NHS should publish a charter outlining how it will share health information and service users must be given a chance to isolate and control access to the most sensitive details, according to new research on public attitudes to electronic records. The research, conducted by the Consumers Association and the NHS Information Authority, found that […]
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Personal Health Journal Advocated
A US group of health reformers has advocated the development of a Personal Health Journal, a voluntary system of electronic medical records that would be transportable over the Internet, but owned and controlled by individual patients. The proposals suggest how the NHS’s electronic health records programme may become a key tool to promote quality, patient […]
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e-Lock Secures UK Drug Database Samples
Samples in the UK’s leading comprehensive drug identification database are kept secure by E-lock, rather than old style locks and keys. The database, kept at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, contains 17,000 samples of tablets and capsules ranging from illicit drugs to herbal remedies and even confectionery that may be mistaken for drugs. Sound […]
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Americans Prefer E-Prescribing
Most Americans prefer an electronic prescribing system that lets doctors send prescriptions directly to pharmacies, says a new survey. The survey found that 82 percent of Americans prefer this kind of e-prescribing because it offers a number of benefits, including less waiting time at the pharmacy, faster prescription renewals, and more time for people to […]
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MEDLINEplus Awarded URAC Quality Seal
Medlineplus, the online health information database service of the US National Library of Medicine (NLC), has been awarded health web site accreditation by the quality body URAC. The NLC-run website is part of the US National Institute of Health, and is the first government-run website to receive the URAC seal. It is the sixteenth health […]
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