Cardiac surgery outcomes website launches
A public website showing outcomes in adult cardiac surgery is due to be launched today by the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland, in conjunction with the Healthcare Commission. This website, designed with patients in mind, is the first publication of the public portal pilot group which has been exploring ways to […]
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Space programme
One of the most intriguing aspects of the NHS IT programme is the HealthSpace project, the online patient portal. Daloni Carlisle reports on how the patient access project is progressing.
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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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US health IT tsar rejects ‘Google’ style record sharing
The idea of a creating a virtual network that keeps health data in its original store and shares information via a ‘Google-type’ search is not on the horizon at the moment, according to the leader of US’ electronic medical records programme, Dr David Brailer. Speaking at a press briefing at the HIMSS (Health Information Management […]
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GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’
The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up onto the NHS summary care record if patients have opted in to have their details shared. The agreed recommendation states "That the GPC insists that clinical data should not be uploaded to the Summary care […]
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New mothers in Wales first to have access to EHRs
New mothers are to be among the first in Wales to receive access to their own electronic health records constructed from the data held by their GPs, as a result of Informing Healthcare (IHC), the Welsh national healthcare IT programme. The scheme is part of the development of the ‘My Health On-Line’ system, which will act […]
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Kodak chosen for Finnish e-health project
Eastman Kodak’s Health Group has been selected as the main supplier of Finland’s RATU e-health project, which aims to integrate the medical imaging and information systems across five Finnish hospital districts. The €2.7m RATU project focuses on the development of e-health in Northern Finland and is funded by five hospital districts and the Finnish Ministry […]
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Microsoft claims SharePoint success in NHS
Microsoft has announced that the number of users of its SharePoint collaboration and filesharing technology in the NHS has increased 25-fold since it signed an enterprise-wide agreement with Connecting for Health. The software, which became heavily discounted to NHS users in May 2004 as part of a wider enterprise-wide agreement, allows organisations to share and […]
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After Katrina
An unprecedented mobilisation of information technology could be just what the doctor ordered to prevent a major public health crisis for more than one million people.
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Doctors.net.uk launches pharma marketing arm
Doctors.net.uk has announced the launch of MedeConnect, a new division that will provide the electronic marketing and market research services for pharma clients on behalf by the online doctor’s portal and email service. MedeConnect will focus entirely on providing services to pharmaceutical customers. Services will include communication with doctors and market research of individual doctor’s […]
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