Safety

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11 May 2005

National US personal health record launched

Medem, a not-for-profit company created by leading US medical societies including the American Medical Association, announced this week the national
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9 May 2005

Major ministerial reshuffle for health

John Hutton, the health minister whose responsibilities included NHS IT, has been promoted in the post-election reshuffle. He enters the
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29 April 2005

Germany joins hospital RFID pilots

Germany has joined the growing number of countries experimenting with wireless tagging of hospital patients to improve safety and provide easier access
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20 April 2005

‘State of the art’ review of health IT announced

The National Patient Safety Research Programme has issued a call for a systematic review of internationally available research on the
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12 April 2005

NI GPs fear raid on computer money

GPs in Northern Ireland say money earmarked for primary care IT has been subject to huge delays and fear the
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11 April 2005

Computer equipment could help MRSA spread

Keyboards and computer equipment installed in hospitals may aid the spread of ‘superbug’ bacteria such as MRSA, a study in
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5 April 2005

GP-to-GP transfer pilot project begins

The National Programme for IT has begun pilots of GP-to-GP record transfer between practices running EMIS and InPractice Systems, using
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5 April 2005

Computer use embedded in new doctors’ curriculum

The use of modern IT systems and a willingness to use and learn about new technology have been included as
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17 March 2005

Brought to book

GP Mark Davies, clinical lead for the National Programme for IT's Choose and Book programme, argues the case for Choose
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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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