Code red

Daloni Carlisle reports on how the often neglected discipline of clinical coding is becoming vital to the financial health of
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Adults with learning difficulties excluded

The first national survey of adults with learning difficulties in England has highlighted the extent to which they face hardship
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Private practice management system launched

  A new practice management system for the private healthcare sector has been launched by PHF Services Ltd, designed to
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Speech recognition helps King’s meet cancer target

Speech recognition technology has helped produce a 50% reduction in diagnostic reporting times according to a report of a recent
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GP system choice being blocked and mocked

A Hertfordshire IT manager reported that he was laughed at when he told his local service provider (LSP) that he
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Every PCT to miss Choose and Book target

The Department of Health (DH) has admitted that not a single primary care trust in England is likely to be
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New Cross gets electronic blood bank management

New Cross Hospital, part of the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with the latest version of Technidata’s
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iSoft in £10.6m deal to buy Spain’s Novasoft

iSoft the UK based healthcare solutions specialist, has bought leading Spanish healthcare IT provider, Novasoft Sanidad, in an agreement structured
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Cancer case repository launched to aid research

A new cancer case repository that is able to extract information from the wide variety of sources in an electronic
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BNF for Children launches with online version

A new handbook on children’s medicines, the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), has been launched with an online version
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