Prescribing

Archive
27 October 2005

Preventing errors in phone consultations

A reminder to doctors to beware of the pitfalls of using the telephone to communicate with patients has come from
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27 October 2005

Bavaria launches patient-controlled health records

The German Patient-Partner Association (PPV), a health provider network, and the German statutory health insurance organisation AOK Bavaria are to
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14 October 2005

ETP should be fully operational by end of 2007

Electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) will be deployed over two releases and should be fully operational by the end of
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29 September 2005

After Katrina

An unprecedented mobilisation of information technology could be just what the doctor ordered to prevent a major public health crisis
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30 August 2005

EMIS releases nurse prescribing system

GP computing supplier EMIS has released nurse prescribing software and two of the other leading suppliers say they will follow
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11 August 2005

Drug test

In his second article in the series, Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics service, looks at specific issues
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4 August 2005

Wirral’s gateway to care

Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical
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27 July 2005

Call for drug ad ban in Australian prescribing software

A survey of drug advertisements in prescribing software used by Australian doctors found the vast majority of the advertisements broke
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21 July 2005

Consultation highlights concerns over NCRS ownership

Concerns over who will own the summary record on the spine and how the summary data will be validated are
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21 July 2005

Fully automated blood transfusion in Oxford

The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, has now completed a pilot of its fully automated blood transfusion process in five clinical areas
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