Safety

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24 December 2007

ETP could cut dispensing errors in half

Dispensing errors could be cut by nearly 50% if pharmacists used an authentification system linked to the electronic transfer of
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24 December 2007

iPhone service locates open pharmacies

Apotheken.de has introduced a new Web 2.0 iPhone service in Germany, locating open pharmacies and providing directions to them.
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19 December 2007

US group calls for national patient IDs

America’s National Alliance for Health Information Technology has called for a national voluntary system of unique patient identification numbers to
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17 December 2007

Atos Healthcare takes over its first medical centre

Atos Healthcare is to take over its first medical centre in the UK in February 2008. The St Paul’s Way
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5 December 2007

Commission calls for better use of information

High-quality information about patients’ care should be used better to measure how well providers are performing, the Healthcare Commission has
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30 November 2007

Informing Healthcare announce next Wales OOH sites

Patients in north-west Wales and south-west Wales will be the next to benefit from improved information sharing between GP practices
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29 November 2007

iSoft’s medication viewer accredited

iSoft Netherlands has received accreditation from the National Institute for ICT in Healthcare to begin implementation of its Transmural Medication
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28 November 2007

Children’s database delayed to review security

The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full
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28 November 2007

Ehealth one of UK’s major future technologies

The government’s Council for Science and Technology (CST) has named e-health as one of the most promising technologies for the
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23 November 2007

Use IT more to promote safety, says WHO

The World Health Organisation has called on health bodies to use IT more for data collection in healthcare settings to
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