The ‘magic glue’
EHI speaks to Beverly Malone, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, about the importance of raising awareness of IT change in the nursing profession.
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New professional standards for team records
Regulators of health professionals have signed up to new standards for keeping records of team-based care in all formats, including electronic records. The standards draw together best practice from nursing, midwifery, medicine, dentistry and the professions allied to medicine in four areas: confidentiality and disclosure; communication of information; process principles; and professional and personal knowledge […]
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Computer use embedded in new doctors’ curriculum
The use of modern IT systems and a willingness to use and learn about new technology have been included as core components of the new curriculum for junior doctors. Under the new trainee doctors will have to demonstrate they are competent in a number of areas including communication and consultation skills, patient safety and team […]
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Disclosure: a key issue for Caldicott Guardians in 2004
The UK’s 1,000 plus Caldicott Guardians, champions for data protection in the NHS and social care, have a packed agenda for 2004 and a new group, the UK Council of Caldicott Guardians, to support them. E-Health Insider talked to the NHS Information Authority’s guardian, DrJanine Brooks, who is helping to set up the council . Speaking […]
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National US health information infrastructure called for
The influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a new report calling on the US Government to create national data standards for collecting and exchanging electronic medical information that would provide a national ‘information infrastructure’ to help spur the adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs). The report outlines a plan to accelerate the development of […]
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Joining Up Is Hard To Do
Technology has an important role to play in the realising the ideal of “joined up” public services, but progress has been slow. SA Mathieson explores the problems and the potential. Specialist IT consultant, Stephen Howes, has encountered offices where staff have two terminals on their desks: one connected to the health network and the other […]
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Under 16s Database Recommendation from Climbie Inquiry
A recommendation that the government should actively explore the benefit to children of setting up a database on all under 16s has come from the Victoria Climbie Inquiry published this week. The inquiry report says that within the next two years a feasibility study and a pilot study should be conducted on an under 16s […]
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All-Wales Approach Proposed for Electronic Records
The long-awaited strategy for health information in Wales proposes a corporate, all-Wales approach to the development of electronic records and other information services. “Informing Healthcare” the consultative strategy paper published by the Welsh Assembly Government, says, “The known weaknesses of ‘centralisation’ will be overcome by a clear commitment that corporate resources are accountable directly to […]
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US Healthcare IT Market Weathers Downturn
Despite the chill wind blowing through the technology market, the US health IT market proved resilient in 2001, largely avoiding the across the board declines seen in many other technology sectors. According to new data from analysts Frost & Sullivan the US technology market generated a total of $6 billion in revenues from IT services, […]
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