25 January 2010

SmokingPackYears.com now multi-lingual

A UK GP has created a multi-language version of his website which offers a smoking pack years calculator for clinicians
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22 January 2010

200,000th e-SAP assessment in Islington

Social workers, district nurses and community nurses in Islington have completed 200,000 shared assessments using Liquidlogic’s PROTOCOL electronic Single Assessment
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21 January 2010

First Welsh practice live with IHR

The first GP practice and out-of-hours service in Wales has gone live with Informing Healthcare’s new Individual Health Record solution.
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20 January 2010

ContactPoint ‘suffers security breaches’

The children’s database ContactPoint has suffered at least three security breaches since its launch, according to an investigation by a
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20 January 2010

NHS Oldham cuts power and carbon costs

NHS Oldham has announced that it expects to save £41,000 from its annual energy costs thanks to energy efficient IT
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19 January 2010

Call for Toolkit discharge standards

NHS Connecting for Health has invited suppliers to help develop and test standards for electronic discharge summaries in an extension
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18 January 2010

NHS North East Essex set to launch SCR

NHS North East Essex is launching its Summary Care Record programme this week and 12 other primary care trusts in
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15 January 2010

No action against doc who accessed ECS

A hospital doctor accused of accessing the Emergency Care Summary records of high profile politicians, footballers and BBC journalists will
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14 January 2010

GP cancer tool ‘a work in progress’

Dr Willie Hamilton, a GP and expert in cancer diagnosis from Bristol University, talks to Fiona Barr about the computer
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13 January 2010

IMS Health wins IC indicators contract

US-based healthcare intelligence company IMS Health has been chosen to produce clinical indicators for the NHS Choices website, taking over
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