Two-thirds of GPs against sharing their medical records
A survey of GPs by Pulse magazine has found that only a third plan to advise patients to allow their details to be shared using the NHS Summary Care Record. The survey revealed that GPs are also cautious about sharing their own records with just a third saying they will allow full sharing, while four […]
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Free online archive of medical research papers launched
Over 500,000 medical research papers are now available for free on the internet, following the launch of the UK PubMed Central online archive. UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is an online archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences. It is the UK equivalent of the American PubMed Central database, which is used […]
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Computers – the greatest medical breakthrough?
Computers have been shortlisted in a British Medical Journal poll to determine the greatest medical breakthrough since 1840. They are one of 15 medical advances, chosen by BMJ readers, that have made the list to find the greatest medical breakthrough since the journal was launched 166 years ago. Other contenders for the title include anaesthesia, antibiotics, the risks […]
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Survey shows waning medical support for NPfIT
A picture of declining support among doctors for the National Programme for IT emerges from the latest Medix survey of medical opinion on IT modernisation, sponsored by E-Health Insider. One of the key findings of the survey is that half of all GPs surveyed said they do not plan to upload patient details onto the […]
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UK practices best for IT to track medical errors
GPs in the UK are well ahead of colleagues around the world in having information systems which track medical errors, according to a survey of primary care doctors in seven countries. The survey of primary care doctors’ office systems in seven countries, the 2006 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians, reveals […]
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Unison condemns offshore medical transcription
NHS trusts that outsource the transcription of medical notes to South Africa, the Philippines and India received a sharp rebuke from health union, Unison, yesterday. General secretary, Dave Prentis, speaking at the union’s annual conference this week, condemned the outsourcing as “a very dangerous practice.” The union has accumulated anecdotal evidence of potentially life-threatening mistakes […]
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Historic medical journal articles to be available free
PubMed Central is to make over three million pages of historical medical journals available for free online, including significant milestones such as a description of the first appendectomy in 1888 and Sir Richard Doll’s groundbreaking 1954 study linking smoking to lung cancer. A total of seventeen publications, including the British Medical Journal and the Journal […]
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Online medical journal access for NHS Wales
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has announced that it is making another 90 online peer-reviewed journals available through the NHS Wales online library, bringing the total number of publications staff can access to 200. The addition is part of the programme’s Access to Knowledge (A2K) project. The new journals cover diverse topics such […]
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Harvard medical students learn with their iPods
Harvard Medical School have started offering podcasts of their lectures to their students, allowing them to learn while on the move. Students can subscribe to a feed from their ‘MyCourses’ page, a web portal that handles each student’s calendar, lecture timetable and contains notes to multimedia case studies and reference sites. New lectures are automatically […]
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iBase medical image software under new management
New media company Waba Logic has announced the acquisition of the iBase Image System Medical Image Manager, which is in use by 23 NHS trust departments. iBase allows clinicians to view medical photographs over a web browser wherever they are, and was developed three years ago in association with clinicians at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge, Birmingham Children’s […]
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