New patient e-health 2.0 sites launched
Two new websites have been launched featuring a collection of real life health stories and personal experiences of illness and health.
News
GPs say lack of discharge data puts patients at risk
One in four GPs has seen patient safety put at risk in the past six months because hospitals have failed to provide adequate discharge summaries, according to the NHS Alliance. The Alliance says the results of its third annual survey on patient discharge information were particularly disapppointing since a new NHS Standard Contract was introduced […]
News
Swindon deploys JAC e-prescribing module
Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust has implemented a JAC e-prescribing module alongside its existing pharmacy module, allowing it to manage its formulary and prescribing policies centrally. The trust has introduced JAC’s Outpatient e-Prescribing Module to 27 clinic rooms and around 80 prescribing users, following a short pilot. It is hoping that all outpatient prescribing will […]
News
UK group urges rethink on drug advertising
An alliance of nine groups representing UK consumers, patients and medical professionals has urged the European Commission to ditch plans to change the rules on the information that drug companies can provide to patients. Spearheaded by consumer lobbyist Which?, the group has sent a letter to the Commission asking it to reconsider its plans to […]
News
E-prescribing round table report
The National Programme for IT in the NHS and hospital boards should put e-prescribing at the top of their agendas because of the huge patient safety benefits to be gained, a round-table discussion has concluded. The round table on e-prescribing, jointly organised by E-Health Insider and the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Forum, brought together […]
News
E-prescribing round table report
The acute sector can learn from primary care when it comes to deploying e-prescribing, a round table discussion has concluded. The round table, jointly organised by E-Health-Insider and the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Forum, acknowledged that prescribing in hospitals and prescribing in primary care are very different. However, participants in the event, sponsored by […]
News
Police to get access to national child database
Police are to be given access to the Government’s new children’s database, in order to search for evidence of criminal activity.
News
Updated version of SNOMED CT released
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation has announced that a new version of SNOMED CT is now available. The international release, which is the second this year, has a series of refinements aimed at enabling clinicians to continue working with IT systems with minimal disruption to their daily routines. Revisions to the international version […]
News
EHI’s news roundup 21.07.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week beginning 21 July 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Poole to deploy Alcatel-Lucent wireless network Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Dorset is deploying an Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Local Area Network to help improve patient care at its 789-bed hospital. The […]
News
Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals
University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a heart attack, for their clinical training from September.
News