Record keeping

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Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it

Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Standards set for the structure of medical records

Profession-wide standards for medical records in hospitals have been agreed for the first time.
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Getting records up to standard

NHS Connecting for Health and the Royal College of Physicians talk about the new standards issued for records in the
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Health check highlights record keeping issues

The Healthcare Commission has once again identified record keeping as one of the weakest areas of NHS performance in its
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Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records?

GP Mary Hawking asks whether the introduction of shared electronic records marks the end of GP electronic records as they
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DH seeks tougher sanctions for security breaches

The government is seeking an increase in penalties for NHS staff that breach the Data Protection Act. Health minister, Ben
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RCP launches generic record-keeping standards

New standards for generic medical reporting have been developed by the Royal College of Physicians health informatics unit (HIU) and supported
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Paper records a ‘direct factor’ in patient’s death

An independent inquiry into the death of a patient seen by eight different doctors over a bank holiday weekend has
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Chesterfield Foundation Trust gets SRC digital dictation

SRC has won a European public procurement to provide a trust-wide digital dictation and workflow management solution to Chesterfield Royal
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Information problems highlighted in complaints review

A quarter of second-stage complaints in the English NHS related to information, according to the Healthcare Commission’s report on 16,000
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