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13 November 2006

‘Googling’ aids difficult diagnoses

Doctors puzzling over a difficult diagnosis might do well to try “googling” their patients’ symptoms, according to research published by
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13 November 2006

Human change the ‘greatest challenge’ for NHS IT

Achieving changes in human processes to accommodate the IT revolution is perhaps the greatest challenge to the successful implementation of improvements in the
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10 November 2006

Immunisation records ‘too poor to migrate’

Staff trying to migrate existing child immunisation records to new systems in London face a “complete mess”, according to a
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9 November 2006

CfH confirm switch to Prodigy for clinical evidence

Connecting for Health have confirmed they have awarded a five year contract to provide Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) to a
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8 November 2006

Communication, collaboration and co-ordination called for

Dr Alan Hassey, the former co-chair of the joint GP IT committee of the British Medical Association and the Royal
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8 November 2006

YouTube used for children’s anti-smoking campaign

Anti-smoking charity QUIT has developed a new online stop smoking campaign aimed at young people, and is using a minute-long video on YouTube to
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1 November 2006

Wales to tender for GP software at national standards

Wales is to go out to tender for GP software suppliers to comply with a national framework contract in a move
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31 October 2006

Guidance on exception reporting published

The publication of exception reporting data for the Quality and Outcomes Framework will reveal total numbers of patients excepted for
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31 October 2006

GP practices to pilot updating details on nhs.uk

A pilot is underway to enable GP practices to update and maintain their own entries on www.nhs.uk – the official
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27 October 2006

Warner rejects call for CfH architecture review

Health minister Lord Warner has rejected calls from leading computer academics for an independent review of the technical architecture of
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