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17 August 2005

Framework agreement for NHS videoconferencing

  Videoconferencing specialists, Questmark, have been awarded a three-year framework agreement by the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency for the supply
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11 August 2005

Drug test

In his second article in the series, Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics service, looks at specific issues
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6 July 2005

National record content outlined by CfH

Information on mental health, sexual health and infections should be excluded from the initial summary record on the spine, Connecting
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28 June 2005

E-health and the EU

The UK's presidency of the EU promises to be a significant one for e-health, Lyn Whitfield reports.
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23 June 2005

Beating the bug

Yvonne Peel of CHKS makes the case for better collection of information about hospital acquired infections such as MRSA.
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9 June 2005

Tag team care

Colin Jervis of Kinetic Consulting examines some of the innovative ways that RFID tags are being used in patient care
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23 May 2005

Judge for yourself

Do electronic health records have any force in law? American correspondent Neil Versel reports from the TEPR conference in Salt
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11 April 2005

Results may vary

Geoff Bick, director of product development at data analysis software firm CHKS, shows how wide variations in hospitals' approach to
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30 March 2005

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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22 March 2005

A+E staff get feature-packed mobile phones

A&E staff at Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust are trialling PDAs containing a Swiss Army knife range of features including voice
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