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Scots consumers call for information on record sharing

The Scottish Consumer Council is pressing for more information to be distributed to patients about the way their electronic health
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PCT forced to revert to paper systems

A primary care trust has been forced to abandon its planned move to a Connecting for Health community patient administration
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Decision support helps cut antibiotic over-use

Clinical decision support can help to reduce the inappropriate prescription of antibiotics in primary care, according to a US study.
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CfH to examine health and social care links

Plans to examine how links between electronic health and social care records could be made to work are to be
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Adapt or perish

Barbara Stuttle, NHS Connecting for Heath's community nursing lead, speaks to EHI Primary Care about the urgent need for the
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Community nurses to start e-prescribing pilot in 2006

Community nurses are to take part in NHS Connecting for Health pilots of electronic nurse prescribing early next year. Barbara
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Bavaria launches patient-controlled health records

The German Patient-Partner Association (PPV), a health provider network, and the German statutory health insurance organisation AOK Bavaria are to
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From dependence to responsibility

In the first of a two part article, Iain Anderson from Capgemini looks at the drivers for change in the
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Virtual healthcare research institute launched

A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in
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Rural US hospitals trailing on IT

A survey by the American Hospital Association of nearly 1,000 community hospitals in the US has revealed that only 10%
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