NHS 24 buys knowledge management system
Information and knowledge management consultancy LSC Group is to provide a knowledge management system including geographic information system for NHS 24, the nurse-led telephone advice, assessment and referral service for Scotland. Using the new GIS system NHS 24 staff will be able to better direct staff to the most appropriate location for care and treatment. […]
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Doctors can order drug samples online
Online portal Doctors.net.uk have started a drug sampling service with , ‘iSample’, that will allow doctors to opt in to request free pharmaceutical stock online. Registered doctors on the site can register for the scheme, which is administered by Doctors.net.uk and medical data company Cegedim UK. They must then download and print off a sample […]
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Call to make drug sales info available online
If pharmaceutical sales representatives provided unbiased information about the drugs they are selling online, known as e-detailing, doctors would spend more time looking at the information than they would in a face-to-face consultation, according to a survey by doctors.net.uk. The poll revealed that doctors only spend an average of two minutes per sales call per […]
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Limited public access to cardiac surgery data agreed
The Central Cardiac Audit Database is to have a public portal allowing access to selected cardiac surgery mortality data. The Healthcare Commission, Department of Health and Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons have reached an ‘agreement in principle’ to allow the public limited access to what has up to now been a closed system. The move comes […]
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Patients use GePmail for self-monitoring
Patients have begun to use a secure internet link to submit their blood pressure and blood sugar results to GPs in a move which could help practices hit their Quality and Outcomes Framework targets. Almost 500 patients have so far registered for the service provided by GePmail, an electronic clinical messaging system which has been […]
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Interoperability centre stage in Dallas
Interoperability was the operative word among the nearly 22,000 health IT professionals at the 2005 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference here last week, Neil Versel reports from Dallas. "Interoperability is the key to achieving the ultimate goal," which is a full electronic health record, explained Dr Carolyn Clancy, director of the US government’s Agency […]
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Fingers point the way forward for patient ID
A group of practices that won an IT innovations award have begun to install a fingerprint identification system that allows patients access to their own records. The Staffa Health Centre, Tibshelf, Derbyshire, became the first of the award-winning practices to install the Patient Electronic Records Systems (PAERS) last week. The system uses touch screen kiosk […]
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UK drug companies to publish trial results online
The Association for the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) have agreed a voluntary code of conduct that the results of clinical trials, both ongoing and completed, should be made available online for free. Under the regulations, members of the ABPI, who include GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca, will be encouraged to publish the results of trials during 2005 […]
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Lessons from America
E-Health Insider talks to David Brailer, national co-ordinator for health IT in the US, about how the US and English health IT programmes can learn from one another.
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EMIS pilots GP booking through digital TV
EMIS has joined up with a South Yorkshire local government digital TV portal to allow patients to book GP appointments through interactive TV. Patients of two GP surgeries in Barnsley can access the booking service, which links up with EMIS Access, through the local government information channel e@sy Connects TV, beamed to around 10,000 households […]
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