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Site lowers blood pressure of procurement officers

An Irish website that aims to painstakingly check and document the medical validations of all the blood-pressure monitoring equipment on
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Data remember

Data transferred between GP systems must be scrupulously examined for errors. E-Health Insider looks at the issues involved and where
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Data quality vital to electronic transfer of prescriptions

Keighley, the first pilot site for electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP), has found that before new national systems can be
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iSOFT unveils Lorenzo demo

iSOFT have released a Flash demo of their enterprise-wide clinical and administrative application Lorenzo on their website, and is asking
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MedNet’s key issues

The tenth World Congress on the Internet in Medicine (MedNet) is taking place later this year. Robert Pretlow looks at
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BMA issues FOI guidelines for GPs

The BMA has issued new guidance to General Practitioners on the Freedom of Information Act advising them to be open
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Americans want personal health records

The majority of Americans want to be able to access an online personal health record (PHR), providing them with details
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Release QoF data if asked, BMA advises

GPs are being advised to release Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) data before national figures are published if their practices
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Germany joins hospital RFID pilots

Germany has joined the growing number of countries experimenting with wireless tagging of hospital patients to improve safety and provide easier access
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Hospital e-mail filter can weed out drug spam

Hammersmith Hospitals NHS trust has installed a spam e-mail filter which the manufacturers say is sophisticated enough to tell genuine
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