2 August 2005

King’s Fund calls for technology use in chronic care

A King’s Fund report into the management of long-term conditions has called for PCTs to put more emphasis on using
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1 August 2005

Information Commissioner will look at opt-out rights

  Clarification on patients’ rights to opt out of having personal information recorded under the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) will
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1 August 2005

National data quality review called for

The NHS needs a national overview of data quality and coding integrity as the Payment by Results regime gathers pace,
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1 August 2005

IT skills shortage due to bite next year

A looming IT staff shortage caused by accelerating retirement rates and fewer graduates coming into the IT profession is being
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29 July 2005

Doctor tagged with RFID worries about privacy

An A&E doctor and CIO who has had an RFID tag implanted into his arm on which his medical reference
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28 July 2005

NCRS will make corrections easier, says minister

Corrections to electronic health records will be easier when the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) is available and problems caused by
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28 July 2005

Recoding purchase data generates savings

A healthcare trust in London is claiming it has saved £1m by recoding its procurement systems from freetext into individual
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28 July 2005

Cerner wins Wirral system replacement contract

US health systems specialists, Cerner Corporation, have been named as the preferred supplier to replace the ageing clinical IT system
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28 July 2005

The ‘magic glue’

EHI speaks to Beverly Malone, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, about the importance of raising awareness of
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27 July 2005

Ofcom investigates patient phone systems

Patientline has said it will suspend new installations in hospitals pending the outcome of an Ofcom inquiry into complaints about
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