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 […]
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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 […]
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Health Informatics is a career for the future
A report on the future of health informatics as a career will be published by E-Health insider at its Healthcare IM&T Careers 2008 event in London next Wednesday (24 September). The report, sponsored by Elan Health, pulls together all the most up to date information about the future of the profession. Free copies will be available for […]
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Testing, testing
Informing Healthcare has opened new research laboratories in Swansea. Lyn Whitfield paid them a visit.
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Foundation trusts tender outside NPfIT
E-Health Insider has learned that just a month after the publication of the Health Informatics Review, a number of NHS foundation trusts have begun to move to non-National Programme for IT in the NHS solutions. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust have seperately placed advertisements for electronic patient record systems […]
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Conservatives commission review of NHS IT
The Conservative Party has commissioned an independent review of NHS IT policy to be led by Dr Glyn Hayes.
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EHI’s news roundup 15.08.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 15 August features supplier news and information on newly published research reports.
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Walsall begins in-house e-discharge project
Walsall Manor Hospital has begun the first stage of an in-house electronic discharge summary project, designed to increase communication between the hospital and local GP practices. Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust’s associate director of IT business change, Maggie Craddock, said: “This was something we chose to do in-house in advance of the national NHS Connecting for […]
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Tough at the top
Christine Connelly and Martin Bellamy will have plenty on their desks when they take over the top jobs in NHS IT in mid September. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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New leaders for NHS IT
The Department of Health has announced Christine Connelly as the first chief information officer for health and named Martin Bellamy as director of programme and systems delivery, leading NHS Connecting for Health. The new appointments follow the departure of Richard Granger as director general of NHS IT in January and a review of NHS IT […]
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