17 October 2008

Home Office consults on data access plans

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has indicated that there will be a further round of public consultation on controversial plans to
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16 October 2008

Health check highlights record keeping issues

The Healthcare Commission has once again identified record keeping as one of the weakest areas of NHS performance in its
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15 October 2008

OLM recruits councils to personalisation programme

OLM Group has announced that six local authorities have joined its personalisation partnership programme, which is designed to help councils
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30 September 2008

EHTEL and EuroRec symposium

The focus of e-health is shifting from connecting systems to connecting people, a symposium ahead of this year’s World of
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29 September 2008

Nicholson reinforces encryption message

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has asked NHS chief executives to check that their organisations are encrypting all removable data.
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26 September 2008

DH looks at single urgent care number

The Department of Health has said that it will publish proposals for a single, national telephone number for urgent care
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24 September 2008

Siemens wins €28m Korean contract

Siemens has announced that it has secured a €28m contract to equip eight Korean hospitals with medical systems, in what
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24 September 2008

Dutch study raises concern about phone triage

A study of out of hours services in the Netherlands has revealed shortcomings in the way patients are triaged. The
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23 September 2008

Consent to view explored for detailed records

The new consent to view model for the NHS Summary Care Record in England may also be applied to the
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23 September 2008

E-prescribing round table report

The National Programme for IT in the NHS and hospital boards should put e-prescribing at the top of their agendas
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