NHS Direct wins award for prescription pilot
NHS Direct’s Evelina Children’s Hospital information prescription pilot project has been awarded the 2008 Ask About Medicines Award for ‘Excellence in improving communication between healthcare professionals and patients or medicine users’. The Evelina Children’s Hospital project was designed to start changing the situation of a lack of information around medicines prescribed to children, and to […]
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HealthSpace set for big expansion
HealthSpace, the government’s secure online site for patients, is to be expanded to include shared records and GP appointment booking, according to the Health Informatics Review. The review, published last week, outlines a much wider role for HealthSpace and says its consultation highlighted strong support for the HealthSpace initiative. In future HealthSpace will be accessed […]
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NLH to close clinical answers website
The National Library for Health (NLH) is to close its online clinical question and answer service this week despite protests from its users. The Primary Care Question Answering Service has handled more than 6,000 queries from GPs, pharmacists and other primary care staff since it was set up in 2004 but will cease operation from […]
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Opinion Health acquires Pearl Medical
More than 400 GPs provided with a BlackBerry mobile device by Pearl Medical have been told their contract will be cancelled or offered different terms following an acquisition of the company by another firm. Pearl Medical has been acquired by Opinion Health, a market research company targeting the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector and with a […]
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Evaware launches new telehealth platform
Software developer, Evaware has launched a new telehealth device, which wirelessly connects with its Project E-vita web-based electronic patient record, enabling clinicians to remotely monitor the vital signs of their home-based patients. The telehealth device uses Bluetooth technology to link with the EPR and set clinical thresholds to monitor. If these thresholds are […]
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Eighty per cent of European GPs using e-records
A new Europe-wide survey on e-health has found that 87% of European GPs now use a computer, 80% of whom are using electronic patient records. The survey, which involved almost 7,000 General Practitioners, was carried out in late 2007. It examines issues including how European GPs store and send patients’ data such as lab reports […]
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Readers’ insight into e-prescribing needed…
EHI is calling for readers to provide their views on the development of acute e-prescribing to inform a round table debate.
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GPs warned on NHSmail phishing attacks
GP practices have been advised to watch out for phishing attacks on NHSmail after reports from two users of bogus attempts to obtain their username and password. The BMA’s General Practitioner Committee issued advice to practices following the incident on 5 March. A spokesperson for Connecting for Health said the incident was not a generalised […]
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Greater Manchester extends telemedicine pilot
The Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network has extended its pilot of a telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch, to ten more PCTs.
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Patient information: how ICTs can help
Fiona Barr looks at the role information technology can play in providing greater information for patients.
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