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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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15 December 2006

BCS calls for complete overhaul of NHS IT project

A new report from the British Computer Society has called for a fundamental rethink of the NHS IT programme, including
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15 December 2006

Survey shows US appetite for personal electronic records

A US survey has revealed strong support for the concept of personal electronic health records, with those polled seeing them
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14 December 2006

Heart of England invests in digital retinopathy

Information management and storage specialists, EMC Corporation, have implemented two EMC Centera content storage systems at the Heart of England
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12 December 2006

PRIMIS CHART e-audit tool launched

An e-audit tool to allow GP practices to assess the quality of their data as part of the IM&T directed
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12 December 2006

Electronic toolkit to be an asset in stroke care

A new electronic toolkit which aims to cut the number of strokes and provide better services for those who do
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8 December 2006

HCA International publishes outcomes data

HCA International, London’s leading private hospital company, says it has become the first in the independent sector to publish outcome
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6 December 2006

Ealing PCT uses text message technology

Ealing Primary Care Trust has launched a mobile phone text message appointment reminder service for 130,000 patients attending 22 of
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4 December 2006

Fresh guidance issued on PBC data requirements

Fresh guidance on practice-based commissioning sets out the minimum data requirements that primary care trusts (PCTs) are expected to provide
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4 December 2006

Information Centre to centralise social care records

The Information Centre is working towards producing a new information system for adult social care records, called the Adult Social
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