Access targets
In the second of the features introducing EHI’s new target watch, EHI Primary Care editor Rebecca Todd looks at targets for giving patients access to new digital services past and present.
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Personal iPads to access Emis records
Clinicians are using their personal iPads to access patient records on Emis Web in a pilot scheme run by Informatics Merseyside.
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Lloyd George records go electronic
CQC inspection powers questioned
Dr Mary Hawking has raised concerns about the inspection powers of the Care Quality Commission regarding access to individual patient records without the explicit consent of patients.
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EC aims for digital records by 2015
As part of the European Commission’s Digital Agenda for Europe the Commission aims to provide patients secure access to digital health records by 2015
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Zealand signs CSC voice deal
CSC has signed a deal with the Zealand region in Denmark for its OPUS Speech Recognition solution. The deal will see ten hospitals take the system, alongwith SpeechEditor from Danish subcontractor and CSC partner Max Manus, which integrates dictated notes into a patient’s electronic record. To access the system, clinical staff enter a unique security password […]
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Dutch IT experts visit UK hospital
A group of Dutch health IT experts have visited Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England, as part of an annual initiative to visit areas of healthcare IT excellence in Europe. The group of 23 professionals, who came from hospitals from across the Netherlands and are all members of the Dutch Association for […]
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Expert view: David Akka
The European head of Magic Software surveys progress on HL7 – and the integration approaches that can be taken to using it.
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Alert implements in Alsaka
Portugese health IT firm Alert has completed its first US implementation after going live at an initial clinic within the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC).
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HealthCom’10 to take place in France
The twelth International Conference on e-Health networking, application and services, HealthCom ’10, will be held in Lyon, France at the beginning of July. The conference aims to bring together clinicians, hospital administrators, IT professionals, researchers, healthcare system suppliers and consultants from across the world to collaborate, discuss health IT solutions and exchange ideas. The conference, […]
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