15 July 2003

E-prescribing Arrives for Out-of-Hours GPs

A major step towards electronic prescribing for out-of-hours (OOH) doctors in England has been taken with the launch of new
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14 July 2003

Virtual Outreach Consultations Evaluated

Virtual outreach consultations across video conference links save time and money for patients but incur greater costs for the NHS
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10 July 2003

Healthcare Interoperability Forum in ‘Abeyance’

The Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF), an industry group of leading system suppliers focused on developing common standards, has gone
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10 July 2003

US SNOMED Licence Raises Questions Over NHS Deal

A $32.4m contract signed by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the US National Library of Medicine will make
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10 July 2003

Orkney Chooses PARIS to Integrate Care

The Orkney Islands Council Community Social Services Department and NHS Orkney have announced that they will work in partnership to
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8 July 2003

Major Grants to Develop ISABEL Decision Support Tool

Funding totalling £127,000 over three years has been awarded by the Department of Health to develop the ISABEL paediatric diagnosis
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4 July 2003

PDAs or Tablet PCs? – The debate continues…

Last week Dr Andrew Harrison wrote about his experience of using a Tablet PC on the wards – The Tablet
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3 July 2003

Granger Tells NHS Boards to Take on IT

A sign of the times was provided last week when it was standing room only at the NHS Confederation’s annual
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3 July 2003

ETP Pilots Ended for 5,000 Patients

The two remaining operational pilots for electronic transfer of prescriptions ETP are to be ended by the Department of Health
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3 July 2003

Open Source: Tablet PCs Wrong for Doctors – Steve Garrington, CEO Torex Health

Last week hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, shared his experience of testing a Tablet PC on the wards. Steve Garrington, chief
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