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Fingerprint health record access wins £3,000 prize

  A group of GP practices, which enable patients to access their records using biometrics and view health information and book
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‘Choose and Book’ will improve, says Pringle

Choose and book will improve over this summer, Professor Mike Pringle, GP lead for NHS Connecting for Health has pledged.
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Technology key to transformed ambulance services

Electronic patient records and the planned central repository for patient information will be vital components of many the changes needed
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Nurse prescribers lack access to computer systems

Lack of access to computer-generated prescriptions is holding back nurse prescribing according to a report published this week. An evaluation
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Comments invited for NHS electronic record guidance

  The Department of Health has issued a revised version of its guidance for records management in the NHS to
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Calls for clarity in spirited BMA confidentiality debate

Doctors queued up to speak on the confidentiality issues raised by centralised electronic records in a lively open debate at the
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Choose and Book a ‘fiasco’, claims BMA chair

The chairman of the British Medical Association has criticised the government’s choice agenda and dubbed Choose and Book a “fiasco”
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Practices under pressure to go with LSPs’ suppliers

Practices are continuing to face pressure to change to their local service provider’s preferred computer supplier despite an agreement three
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MDU warns GPs to keep electronic records ‘clean’

 The Medical Defence Union has warned GPs that if they do not scrupulously maintain their electronic patient records they may
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BMA chair to lead top level IT working party

The British Medical Association is to suspend its information management committee and replace it with a top level working party
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