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First ever record standards to improve discharge summaries

Profession-wide standards for medical records in hospitals have been agreed.
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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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ICT BIO 2008 this week

This week will see the ICT BIO 2008 Conference in Brussels, 23-24 October, 2008.
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DigiTV receives EC funding for telecare

A digital TV initiative for public services run by Kirklees Council has won European Commission funding to develop interactive health
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Lincor tops Deloitte’s Irish technology awards

Ireland-based Lincor Solutions, a provider of bedside patient entertainment and clinical access systems, has been named number one in the
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GPs say lack of discharge data puts patients at risk

One in four GPs has seen patient safety put at risk in the past six months because hospitals have failed
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Great Ideas

Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust’s Shanaz Sohal and Jo Murfett discuss its blood tracking pilot.
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Northern Ireland picks Sectra for RIS/PACS

Northern Ireland’s Department of Health has selected Swedish medical IT specialist Sectra to provide the technology for managing radiology information
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Centre Hospitalier installs MediVista

Click to enlarge France’s Centre Hospitalier de la Region d’Annecy has installed an advanced bedside communications and entertainment system supplied
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CfH clinical lead thinks future may be Lorenzo

NHS Connecting for Health’s clinical lead for hospital doctors has predicted that iSoft’s Lorenzo “could be used more” than Cerner’s
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