Quality

Archive
18 March 2005

Positive input

EHI Primary Care talks to the clinical director of PRIMIS about recent improvements in GP clinical data.
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16 March 2005

Welsh hospital trust looks to merge patient records

Pontypridd & Rhondda NHS Trust has installed a system that allows patient details to be stored on a central server,
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15 March 2005

Pathology links system said to be unsafe

The pathology links system is delivering inappropriately coded results in England which make it clinically unsafe because the codes used
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14 March 2005

EMRs reduce visits for primary and specialist care

The introduction of electronic medical records (EMRs) reduced visits to primary and specialist outpatient care in two regions covered by the
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10 March 2005

Limited public access to cardiac surgery data agreed

The Central Cardiac Audit Database is to have a public portal allowing access to selected cardiac surgery mortality data. The
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8 March 2005

No single opt-out on medical records database

Patients will be unable to make a single request for their records not to be held on the NHS Care
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7 March 2005

Good telecare comes in small packages, argue researchers

Research undertaken by the University of Newcastle has revealed that service-specific telemedicine and videoconferencing systems are of limited value to
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23 February 2005

Privacy key for US electronic health records

US health information technology interests have expressed great concern about guarding the privacy of patient data in building a National
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22 February 2005

GPs get a voice

New efforts are to be made by the NPfIT to engage GPs. E-Health Insider Primary Care talks to Dr Gillian
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22 February 2005

Patients use GePmail for self-monitoring

Patients have begun to use a secure internet link to submit their blood pressure and blood sugar results to GPs
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