Practice manager finds no opt-out from NCRS

A practice manager has tried and failed to prevent her health record, which contains a significant error, being stored in
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Study shows doctors use PDAs more for admin than care

Doctors in the US are not generally making use of PDAs to improve patient care, and those that do use
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Theatre Manager goes live at UCLH

University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust has successfully deployed Picis Theatre Manager in 25 operating theatres across five
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Shedding light

E-Health Insider looks at documents released by NPfIT under FOI and describes how you can also make a request.
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Emergency care summary set to rollout in Scotland

A project which allows out-of-hours services access to an emergency care summary of patients’ GP records is likely to be
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InPS launches new self check-in solution

The latest self-service check-in technology is now available for practices using In Practice Systems’ Vision 3.0. Billed as the ‘next
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Legal issues with GP data transfer mooted at HC2005

GPs who move their electronic patient record data to new systems may have to keep the old ones running concurrently
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Remote monitoring for heart patients in Newham

Newham University Hospital NHS Trust has officially launched a telemedicine service that allows patients to self-monitor their conditions from their
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Visiting partner

E-Health Insider speaks to Joseph Ternullo, assistant director of Partners HealthCare in the US, about why telemedicine could be the
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NPfIT’s new name already taken

The announcement that the NHS National Programme for IT is to become Connecting for Health appears to have immediately run
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