Informatics

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2 February 2006

Staff workflow key to health IT success, says study

Healthcare IT implementations could risk failure if care is not taken of how users react to the tasks they are
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31 January 2006

CfH announces awards for health IT innovation

 Entries have opened for the 2006 Health Informatics Accolade Scheme, which aim to reward the innovative use of technology in
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25 January 2006

Electronic health card trial to begin in Germany

Germany is to start trialling an electronic health card at the end of April that will contains basic patient data
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24 January 2006

Enfield PCT selects EMIS for super surgery

A North London primary care trust (PCT) has awarded primary care systems supplier EMIS a contract to supply the PCS system for a
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23 January 2006

GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’

The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up
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17 January 2006

PCT reorganisation unsettles IT community

The NHS IT community has echoed the House of Commons health select committee’s criticism of the government’s latest reorganisation of PCTs, expressing unease
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29 November 2005

NHS domain block causing bounced patient e-mail

E-mails to nhs.uk addresses from patients may be being blocked due to the inclusion of nhs.uk on a site used
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15 November 2005

PCT forced to revert to paper systems

A primary care trust has been forced to abandon its planned move to a Connecting for Health community patient administration
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14 November 2005

NHS e-health research should focus on patients

Researchers into e-health should be concentrating on long-term change and projects from the patients’ point of view, rather than studying
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14 October 2005

Ending the ‘rough ride’ for health informaticians

People who choose to work in health informatics have had a ‘fairly rough ride’ with no obvious career pathways and
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