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24 April 2008

CfH says patient safety work has progressed

Connecting for Health has worked hard to ensure its clinical software design meets patient safety requirements after a review conducted
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24 April 2008

Over 10 NHS security breaches in last 6 months

The NHS has reported more than ten data security breaches to the Information Commissioner in the six months since the
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24 April 2008

Gibraltar launches electronic transcription application

The Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA) has launched a new prescription transcribing and dispensing application, incorporating First DataBank Europe’s (FDBE) Multilex
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23 April 2008

Swedish centre mines drug reaction data

A Swedish monitoring centre is using data mining techniques to help identify adverse drug reactions based on Yellow Card patient
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23 April 2008

Wales extends use of emergency care record

Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, has announced that it is to pilot an extension of the emergency care
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23 April 2008

CfH buys 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards

Connecting for Health has purchased 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards as part of a new initiative to help keep IT equipment infection
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23 April 2008

Mobile monitoring for Barmer customers

Barmer Ersatzkasse, Germany’s biggest health insurance company, has begun to offer its 7m customers mobile phone based fitness monitoring. The
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22 April 2008

Prof Sir Bruce Keogh interim DH IT director general

Sir Professor Keogh, the Department of Health’s medical director, is to become the department’s interim director general of informatics. He
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22 April 2008

Evaluation to recommend cautious SCR roll-out

The pace of implementation of the Summary Care Record (SCR) looks likely to be slower than originally planned after it
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22 April 2008

Revised telecare framework promises £4.1m savings

The telecare national framework agreement has been updated and should offer potential extra savings of £4.1m according to the NHS
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