E-Prescribing

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Universal e-prescribing recommended for US

All prescribers and pharmacies should be using e-prescriptions by 2010, US experts on drug error prevention have recommended. A report
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City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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NHS IT spending lags behind Wanless targets

Forecasts from trade association, Intellect, suggest that NHS spending on IT in England is likely to undershoot significantly the figure
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St Mary’s goes live with JAC pharmacy management

St Mary’s NHS Trust has become the second trust in London to go live with a new pharmacy management system
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Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire

Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK,
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Great Ormond Street implements electronic prescribing

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has begun implementation of JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) System. 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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Study shows doctors use PDAs more for admin than care

Doctors in the US are not generally making use of PDAs to improve patient care, and those that do use
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Europe making progress to eHospitals

A major new survey of IT use in almost 900 European hospitals, including 73 in the UK, has found that
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John Radcliffe develops e-prescribing for blood

John Radcliffe Hospital, part of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, is developing a new electronic prescribing system for blood
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