Safety

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4 January 2007

Health IT administrator charged with planting ‘logic bomb’

A former systems administrator in the US has been arrested by the FBI and charged after placing a ‘logic bomb’
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27 December 2006

High-tech radios rollout for ambulances in 2007

A new radio system to be installed by all NHS ambulance trusts in England beginning in early 2007 will offer
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22 December 2006

iPod access to health records launched in US

New software called HealthFrame 2.1 has been launched in the US allowing patients to access their personal health records using an
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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12 December 2006

Cerner problems ‘reported before NOC go-live’

A problem with appointment bookings that hit Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital when it went live with its new Cerner system had
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12 December 2006

RCGP urges ‘universal and rapid’ SNOMED deployment

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has written to NHS IT director general Richard Granger calling for the "universal
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5 December 2006

Heartlands uses RFID for patient identification

The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Safe Surgery Systems Ltd a contract to supply a Radio Frequency
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28 November 2006

Local sealed envelopes ‘probably safer’

A risk analysis conducted for NHS Connecting for Health has concluded that patient care would probably be safer using locally
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27 November 2006

Plans for children’s databases criticised

Government plans for children’s databases could end up putting children at increased risk by diverting resources away from frontline services
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27 November 2006

Birmingham PCT extends electronic incident reporting

Birmingham East and North PCT has contracted with risk management systems developers Vantage Technologies to implement its web-based Sentinel reporting software.
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