60 second interview: Jean Roberts
Our latest 60 second interview is with Dr Jean Roberts, an internationally known health informatician.
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London pharmacies use SMS for stop smoking drive
Pharmacies in London are to use text messaging to launch a smoking cessation campaign and offer customers support to kick the habit. The pharmacies will use iPLATO’s Patient Care Messaging for Pharmacies service to validate smoking status, invite “quitters” to smoking cessation services and “follow up” with them over a year. They will also receive […]
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Scotland superbug alert system delayed
The Electronic Communication of Surveillance in Scotland system, which will be used to alert doctors to superbug outbreaks, will not be launched until next year. The web-based early warning system was meant to be deployed later this year. However, Health Protection Scotland, the agency responsible for ECOSS, says linking Scottish diagnostic labs to the system […]
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Act paves way for NIGB
The National Information Governance Board is to become a statutory body, replacing the Patient Information Advisory Group, following Royal Assent for the Health and Social Care Act 2008. Although the NIGB was formed in October last year, it was only an interim board. The PIAG was the statutory body until the Act became law. Now […]
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CfH technology boss says paper not fit for purpose
Connecting for Health’s chief technology officer, Paul Jones has stressed the importance of integrating standards to achieve interoperability in healthcare, saying paper is “no longer fit for purpose”. Speaking at last week’s Connecting for Health’s SNOMED CT and interoperable healthcare conference, Jones said health providers were under increased pressure to ensure the care they provide […]
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Safer surgery checklist launched by WHO
The World Health Organisation has devised a new safety checklist designed to help cut the number of preventable surgical complications and deaths. Currently, the checklist is only available on paper, but the surgeon who developed it, Professor Atul Gawande of Harvard University, told E-Health Insider, that work was underway to create an electronic version. The checklist […]
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NLH to close clinical answers website
The National Library for Health (NLH) is to close its online clinical question and answer service this week despite protests from its users. The Primary Care Question Answering Service has handled more than 6,000 queries from GPs, pharmacists and other primary care staff since it was set up in 2004 but will cease operation from […]
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Creating a master guide to NHS websites
In his latest column GP Dr Neil Paul offers some suggestions to make it easier to find NHS information.
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EHI’s news roundup 13.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 13 June 2008 features new initiatives, supplier news, awards and newly published reports. New websites and web tools: Department of Health revises Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool A revised Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool is to be launched to help areas identify local health inequalities and […]
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Consultation begins on national GP data extraction
The Information Centre has announced it is beginning consultations with stakeholders for a new data extraction system that will record and analyse local GP activities to improve patient care and target NHS resources more effectively. GP extraction service (GPES) will be a centrally-managed primary care data extraction and analysis tool which will obtain information from […]
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