Quality

Archive
16 June 2005

Better information and IT in view for kidney care

IT to support primary care staff whose work includes prevention of and treatment for kidney disease is a key component
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14 June 2005

Solving the maze

Gerry Yantis and Nikolai Segora from Capgemini argue for greater integration between IT programmes in primary care.
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13 June 2005

Software piloted for better cancer data collection

Pilot IT systems have been implemented in two local cancer registries with the intention of improving the quality of the
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31 May 2005

Electronic record content still up for discussion

The question of what information will go on a local record and what will go on a national summary record
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31 May 2005

Scotland publishes QoF data online

The first official practice by practice results for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) have appeared with the online publication
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23 May 2005

The virtual patient

Dr Richard Fitton, GP and member of the Care Record Development Board, predicts a future in which patients have control
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23 May 2005

Judge for yourself

Do electronic health records have any force in law? American correspondent Neil Versel reports from the TEPR conference in Salt
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18 May 2005

First PACS installations go live … quietly

The first picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) installed under the National Programme for IT went live recently but details
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18 May 2005

Site lowers blood pressure of procurement officers

An Irish website that aims to painstakingly check and document the medical validations of all the blood-pressure monitoring equipment on
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17 May 2005

Data remember

Data transferred between GP systems must be scrupulously examined for errors. E-Health Insider looks at the issues involved and where
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