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Electronic record content still up for discussion

The question of what information will go on a local record and what will go on a national summary record
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Baby steps

E-Health Insider Primary Care reports on two pilot initiatives in sharing of children's details between local authority and health service
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Pharma firms offered internet chat tracking

A service which tracks consumer chat about medicines on the internet is being offered to pharmaceutical companies and drug regulators
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Scotland publishes QoF data online

The first official practice by practice results for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) have appeared with the online publication
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Chair of NHS Institute for Innovation named

Dame Yve Buckland has been named as the first chair of the new NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement by health minister, Jane
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US GPs sceptical about patient access to records

A survey of attitudes towards patient-accessible electronic patient records in primary care in the US has revealed that GPs, rather
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Robot baby helps medical students train

A Florida-based company is manufacturing interactive baby mannequins containing software that will emulate the vital signs of a three-to-six-month old
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Comments wanted on Care Record Guarantee

Questions about the content of local health records and summary records and the options patients should have on information recorded
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Suppliers advised to develop standalone software

Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that it is advising its suppliers to develop standalone versions of their applications, not
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EU conference in Norway spotlights e-health partnership

European commissioners have called for greater partnerships between both the public and the private sector and between different countries to
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