NICE

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2 January 2006

Choice without C&B

The patient choice agenda is going ahead despite delays in rollout of electronic bookings over Choose and Book, E-Health Insider
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7 November 2005

Lessons for NPfIT from ‘wild ride’ to US failure

A study of the ‘wild ride’ towards a failed implementation of a new electronic medical record system found a ‘transient
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21 September 2005

A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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7 September 2005

Tech industry concerned about NICE appraisal cuts

  The Association for British Healthcare Industries (ABHI) has expressed concern that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence’s reduction in
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12 August 2005

A wristband that checks the right drug? Brilliant

A student at Brunel University has won an industry prize for designing a hospital wristband, called ‘Brilliant’, that can check the dose
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9 June 2005

Tag team care

Colin Jervis of Kinetic Consulting examines some of the innovative ways that RFID tags are being used in patient care
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31 March 2005

NICE backs computerised cognitive behaviour therapy

GPs across England are set to gain access to computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (CCBT) as an option for treating mild
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11 March 2005

Version One updates document imaging with OCR

Version One has announced a new version of its document imaging software used by a number of NHS trusts that
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25 January 2005

Nursing IT study to look at local systems

The Department of Health has funded a £250,000, two-year study into how nurses use IT when making clinical decisions and
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21 December 2004

Decision support software review planned by NICE

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been asked by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to carry out
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