Surgical data reduces mortality
A study has revealed that since surgeons started publishing data on outcomes for people undergoing heart operations, mortality rates have dropped dramatically. The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery studied 400,000 operations performed over the past five years, and found that death rates in coronary artery surgery fell by 21% and in aortic valve replacement operations by […]
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System C buys Liquidlogic
Healthcare IT software and services specialist System C has purchased UK social services software supplier Liquidlogic.
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MPs back technology for patient safety
MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve patient safety are working or not. In a report concluding its inquiry into patient safety, the House of Commons Health Committee says “judging the overall effectiveness of patient safety policy is made difficult because of […]
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iSoft Synergy to start GP2GP testing
Progress on the GP2GP electronic records transfer programme remains on track with plans to start testing iSoft’s Synergy system at the end of this month, the BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group heard. If testing goes to plan on the roadmap published by NHS Connecting for Health, Synergy will join Emis’ LV and INPS’ Vision […]
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Plain on self-assessment Odyssey
Clinical decision support specialist Plain Healthcare is piloting a system that enables patients to self-assess their symptoms online before seeing a GP. Odyssey SelfAssess is based on the same software as the company’s Odyssey TeleAssess triaging system, which is already widely used by clinicians in out-of-hours services. The SelfAssess software is written in lay language and […]
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GP bodies clash on SCR
The Royal College of General Practitioners has publicly backed the Summary Care Record following criticism of its consent model by GP representatives from the British Medical Association. Professor Steve Field and Dr Clare Gerada, chair and vice chair of the RCGP, have written to the BMJ. arguing that the need for a shared record is […]
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Safety focus at BCSPHSG conference
Patient safety when using interoperable systems and sharing data will come under the spotlight at the British Computer Society’s Primary Health Care Specialist’s Group summer conference later this month. Speakers from NHS Connecting for Health will seek to outline how patient safety is being addressed across the National Programme for IT and there will also […]
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Hope: first EPS R2 site this summer
The first early adopter site for Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service is expected to begin this summer, according to the Department of Health. Care services minister Phil Hope told MPs in response to a parliamentary question that one GP system and one pharmacy system are completing the final stages of clinical safety testing. […]
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Orebro first with Swedish summary record
InterSystems has announced that the first stage of the Swedish National Patient Summary Project has been successfully deployed.
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DEBUGIT workshop on IT for patient safety
The first international workshop on IT for patient safety is to be held in conjunction with the ninth International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine ITAB 2009. The conference, to be held in Larnaca Cyprus November 5-7, 2009, will provide a compilation of the latest trends and developments in the field of IT […]
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