Safety

29 December 2003

The UK’s 1,000 plus Caldicott Guardians, champions for data protection in the NHS and social care, have a packed agenda

3 December 2003

Technology has the potential both to reduce and to create new types of medication errors – and should be

24 November 2003

The influential Institute of Medicine (IOM) has published a new report calling on the US Government to create national data

23 October 2003

Doctors’ fears that an e-mail consultation service would be abused turned out to be unfounded, the International e-Health Association Conference

24 September 2003

A US physician liability insurance organisation, MedAmerica Mutual Risk Retention Group, is to offer its members a subsidy towards the

19 August 2003

IBM has announced that the first applications have gone live under its ten-year contract to provide Directorate of Information Systems of

14 August 2003

Support for clinical audit and improved clinical governance is one of the great advances promised by electronic medical record systems

4 August 2003

In a new report the independent Institute of Medicine (IOM), part of the US National Academies, has published a set

15 July 2003

A major step towards electronic prescribing for out-of-hours (OOH) doctors in England has been taken with the launch of new

8 July 2003

Funding totalling £127,000 over three years has been awarded by the Department of Health to develop the ISABEL paediatric diagnosis

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