EHI’s industry news roundup 11.01.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 11 January 2008. North Yorkshire PCT use digital pen and paper for SAP Anoto partner Ubisys is to roll out digital pen and paper technology to 150 North Yorkshire Adult and Community services staff at North Yorkshire and York PCT to improve their procedures for […]
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EC may reconsider patient information rules
The European Commission is considering tabling legislation next year that would change the rules on the information that drug companies can provide to patients, according to the British Medical Journal. The expectation is that there will be some relaxation of the rules which strictly control the information that drug companies can offer patients and restrict […]
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ETP could cut dispensing errors in half
Dispensing errors could be cut by nearly 50% if pharmacists used an authentification system linked to the electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP), according to the biggest piece of research to date on dispensing errors in UK pharmacies. The study, published in the International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, looked at the number of dispensing errors at […]
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BT deploys Picis theatre system to six London trusts
BT has successfully completed its deployment of Picis theatre systems to six hospital trusts in London under the National Programme for IT. Announced last year, BT had signed an agreement with specialist developer, Picis, to deliver new operating theatre management systems to six hospital trusts, under agreement by Connecting for Health. Since then, BT has […]
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BMA to attempt to control internet drug sales
The British Medical Association (BMA) is to work with the UK government and the World Health Organisation to control internet sales of medicines. Concerns have been raised by the UN and the World Health Organisation that some drugs sold over the Internet are counterfeit and potentially harmful. Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of BMA Council, said […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 16.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 15 November, featuring supplier news, events, product launches, appointments and awards. Supplier News Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust use Affiniti to manage IP infrastructure The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has appointed Affiniti to provide and manage its IP infrastructure, upgrade existing networks and implement […]
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HealthSpace opening up to ‘advanced’ users
Registration has started for ‘advanced accounts’ offering patients the opportunity to view their Summary Care Records on HealthSpace, the NHS online personal health register. The service has opened up in tandem with the launch of the first Summary Care Records (SCRs). Nearly 50,000 of the summaries drawn from GP records in participating practices in Bolton […]
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Scottish pharmacies want emergency records access
Community Pharmacy Scotland, representing the owners of Scotland’s 1200 chemists, has made appropriate access to the Scottish Emergency Care Summary (ECS) part of its manifesto pledges. The organisation has called on the Scottish government to allow community pharmacists to obtain access to the record, when appropriate, as part of their latest manifesto document which lays […]
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Rapid deployment for Orion workstation system
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust in North-west England has deployed a new clinical workstation system which provides acute care summary records across four hospitals and an outpatient clinic. The trust is using Orion Health’s Clinical Integration Framework – a software platform for creating integrated electronic health records across organisation. Users view the records using […]
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Microsoft launches CUI internationally
Microsoft has today launched its health Common User Interface (CUI), designed to help improve patient safety and the efficiency of clinicians by providing them with a standard user interface for clinical systems. Developed in partnership with the English NHS the CUI is now available to all healthcare developers around the world at no cost at […]
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