Don’t boycott e-records, pleads CfH patients lead
Connecting for Health’s patient lead, Marlene Winfield, has pleaded with GPs not to boycott key National Programme for IT initiatives following the British Medical Association’s recent vote in favour of non co-operation with the NHS Care Records Service. Writing in the British Medical Journal, Winfield questions whether a boycott of e-health records is truly in the […]
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Speech recognition helps King’s meet cancer target
Speech recognition technology has helped produce a 50% reduction in diagnostic reporting times according to a report of a recent cancer treatment trial at King’s College Hospital, London. The trial, conducted by the South East London Cancer Network, was designed to find a solution that would reduce report creation times to meet NHS waiting time […]
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King’s Fund calls for technology use in chronic care
A King’s Fund report into the management of long-term conditions has called for PCTs to put more emphasis on using technology to involve patients in decision-making and self-management. The paper, authored by south London GP Rebecca Rosen and research fellow Sara Corben, recommends that PCTs should train healthcare professionals to point newly-diagnosed patients in the […]
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