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23 February 2005

Privacy key for US electronic health records

US health information technology interests have expressed great concern about guarding the privacy of patient data in building a National
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10 February 2005

NPfIT urged to communicate with nurses

The Royal College of Nursing have called for better communication between nursing staff and the National Programme for IT, and
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27 January 2005

Lifting the burden

E-Health Insider talks to Bob Allen, interim chair of the Information Centre for Health and Social Care, about how the
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19 January 2005

This time it’s personal

Why do we need electronic health records, anyway? Gerry Yantis and Manuel Lowenhaupt of CapGemini argue that the challenges faced
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6 January 2005

Words get around

Blogging is one of the success stories of the internet. E-Health Insider looks at NHS staff who blog and also
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13 December 2004

New A&E system for Nottingham

Queen’s Medical Centre, part of University Hospital, Nottingham NHS Trust, has procured and implemented a new A&E system to track
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9 December 2004

Flexibility key, says Forrest

In an exclusive interview, Martyn Forrest, Regional Implementation Director for the North East of England sets out the challenges of
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17 November 2004

Halligan will not take up top Irish health job

Deputy chief medical officer, Professor Aidan Halligan, who until recently held the post of joint senior responsible officer (SRO) for
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8 November 2004

Mixed results as Contact splutters into life

E-Health Insider has had a bumper response from NHS staff sharing their experiences of the first week of Contact, the new
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29 October 2004

Surgeon tags patients with WiFi to improve safety

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital is claiming to have the world’s first pilot of wireless active tagging system for patients, with links
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