Silent Assassin in Second Life
Diabetes UK poster ad in the virtual world of Second Life Diabetes UK has taken its Silent Assassin campaign into Second Life. Virtual posters have been put up around the 3D virtual world to inform its 15 million “residents” about the campaign, which seeks to raise awareness of how diabetes can cause a range of […]
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Vote for your Healthcare ICT Champion of 2008
Who packs the most megabites into their work for patients? Who would win gold if health informatics was an Olympic sport? It’s time to vote for the strongest link!
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Renal PatientView to attract more users
Thousands more kidney patients are to be encouraged to use Renal PatientView, a secure online service that gives them password-protected access to test results and information about their diagnosis and treatment. The Renal Information Exchange Group, which has a dozen members including the Department of Health, the Scottish and Welsh governments, transplant and research charities […]
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Fake sicknotes for sale online
Fake sicknotes, complete with doctors’ stamps, are being sold online. The DoctorsNoteStore.com website is selling the fake doctors’ sicknotes for £24.99. They are almost identical to a genuine letter from a GP or hospital. The site advertises a guaranteed delivery time of 48 hours for the replica certificates, written on official NHS notepaper with an […]
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Information prescriptions to be linked to electronic records
The Department of Health is this week expected to set out its vision for information prescriptions that are linked to electronic patient records and a national accredited information system based within NHS Choices.
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DH gives go-ahead for EPS Release 2
A regulatory impact assessment has given the green light to the next stage of the Electronic Prescriptions Service – one of the national projects being undertaken by NHS Connecting for Health. The assessment considered whether the government should revert to paper prescriptions or the EPS Release 1, in which electronic messages are attached to paper […]
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How the web threatens GP reputations
Lawyer Magnus Boyd argues that ratings websites can destroy doctors’ reputations in the time it takes to send an e-mail.
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Further role for NHS Choices in DES guidance
Patients will be able to check whether their GP practice meets national data accreditation standards via NHS Choices, according to NHS Connecting for Health. The IT agency has released new guidance on the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES), which reveals plans to publish practices’ data accreditation status. The guidance states that data accreditation activity logged […]
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Patient Opinion mashes up NHS Choices
Patient Opinion has announced a “mash-up” with NHS Choices comments released onto a Cabinet Office website to promote new uses of government information. The independent website, which was founded by a Sheffield GP and is funded by subscriptions from trusts, regulators and others, has taken an NHS Choices data feed from a site run by […]
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Doctors complain about rating website
Doctors have complained to the Information Commissioner about the doctors’ rating website iwantgreatcare.org. The site www.iwantgreatcare.org was launched last month to enable patients to post comments about individual GPs and patients. However doctors have complained that the site is in breach of the Data Protection Act by including their names on its database and refusing […]
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