Patient safety

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3 April 2007

PACS roll-out milestone hit in London and the South

All NHS hospital trusts across London and the South of England have now received systems to enable them to capture
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27 March 2007

FDBE signs up with Map of Medicine and Soarian

Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe has secured contracts to add its systems to the Map of Medicine and
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19 March 2007

Hunt spells out local ownership moves

 Health minister, Lord Hunt, who was responsible for setting up the National Programme for IT, has defended its strongly centralised
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14 March 2007

EMIS becomes first GP supplier to commit to CUI

Primary care systems supplier EMIS is to become the first major clinical software vendor to the health service to incorporate
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12 March 2007

BMA sits on critical Choose and Book survey results

The British Medical Association has decided not to publish its own survey of Choose and Book which is highly critical
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1 March 2007

“It’s not about politics – it’s about patients”

In the concluding part of E-Health Insider's exclusive interview with the chairman of the BMA, James Johnson, he tells us
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22 February 2007

New post-Shipman information guidelines issued

The government has released new guidelines on the use of information to ensure NHS organisations have systems and processes in
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16 February 2007

DH embraces wireless safety technologies

A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by
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15 February 2007

BMA chair says smart card policy ‘preposterous’

Connecting for Health’s policy of requiring doctors to repeatedly log-in with a smart card every time they use a computer
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15 February 2007

Initiate first to achieve new HL7 compliance level

Initiate Systems, a specialist in master data management solutions has announced it has become the only vendor to have achieved
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