Electronic hospital prescribing brought forward to 2006
Health Minister Lord Warner is to fast-track the introduction of electronic hospital prescribing in response to the recent report by National Cancer Director, Professor Mike Richards. Professor Richards’ report stated that cancer drugs recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) are often unavailable in certain areas of the UK, and blames lack of […]
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XML Special Focus: Supporting Clinical Governance
Support for clinical audit and improved clinical governance is one of the great advances promised by electronic medical record systems but they usually require clinicians to shoehorn their thoughts and opinions about a patient into pre-determined formats. Free text, so the received wisdom goes, cannot be analysed. To produce information of the quality needed for […]
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New NeLH Service for Midwives and Pregnant Women
The National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) has opened up a new information section to support care for mothers and babies. The new service is the result of a partnership between the NeLH and MIDIRS – the Midwifery Information and Resource Service. Midwives and pregnant women can now view or download essential information produced by […]
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New Quality Mark Launched for Health Information
A new website and "Triangle Mark" have been launched by the Centre for Health Information Quality (C-H-i-Q’s) to help raise standards for online and offline health information. The new site Hi Quality, has been backed by Department of Health funding , and was developed as part of C-H-i-Q’s quality assurance programme, recently implemented across all […]
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Online Toolkit Aids GP Appraisals
An online toolkit to help GPs through the appraisals process was demonstrated at the EMIS National User Group conference at Warwick University. The Appraisals Toolkit at http://www.appraisals.nhs.uk, developed at the Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics in Newcastle (SCHIN), was presented by GP education lead, Dr Paul Robinson, who explained that the aim was to provide […]
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