Readers back reformed NPfIT
The National Programme should not be scrapped although it should be reformed, a major survey by E-Health Insider and Doctors.net.uk has concluded.
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PHRs a hit with Indiana students
Personal Health Records have proved popular with students in a trial at The Indiana University Health Centre. According to the University some 3,100 of 7,200 incoming students – 40% of the class – have activated a PHR and entered some data, said Pete Grogg, associate director at the health center. According to Health Data Management […]
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EHI and doctors.net take pulse of NHS IT
NHS IT and alternatives to some or all of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have broken into the non-specialist press in recent weeks. First, papers speculated that the Conservative Party might be planning to tear up the National Programme for IT in the NHS and to let people use personal health record platforms […]
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Time to change the record?
E-Health Insider’s Sarah Bruce gauges reaction to the Conservatives’ response to the independent review of NHS IT.
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Primary care inspires review
EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr dissects the NHS IT review and identifies the wellspring of ideas that shaped it.
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Conservatives pledge to ‘halt’ LSP deals
The Conservative party has pledged to scrap the NHS Spine and halt and re-negotiate the two main contracts with BT and Computer Sciences Corporation in order to revamp NHS IT.
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Conservatives to ‘dismantle’ NPfIT
The Conservatives have promised to “dismantle Labour’s central NHS IT infrastructure” and instead move to a choice of local accredited patient record and clinical systems.
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Pharmacists warn on personal records
Pharmacists’ representatives have claimed that use of private health record services such as Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault could risk fragmentation of electronic patient records. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain said “the profileration of these systems and indiscriminate use” could lead to information on drug allergies, possible interactions, duplications or dose adjustments not […]
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Enquire within
NHS Evidence is a new route to guidance and best practice. Daloni Carlisle reports on the site and the technology behind it.
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Davis: Google hits back
Google’s global privacy counsel has hit back at former shadow home secretary David Davis for an article criticising the Conservative Party’s reported plans to hand over medical records to the search giant. In a lively post on his European Public Policy Blog, Peter Fleischer said Google had been “surprised and disappointed” to read Davis’ “vitriolic” […]
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