Safety

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21 April 2009

Audit Scotland flags concerns with ECR

Scotland’s national audit body has raised concerns about the scope and quality of the country’s Emergency Care Summary. In its latest report
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21 April 2009

Audit Scotland revisits meds management

Scotland’s national audit body has urged the Scottish Government to encourage health boards to take up a national Hospital Electronic
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17 April 2009

NHS Choices to publish mortality rates

NHS Choices is to start publishing hospitals’ standardised mortality ratios on its website. The government’s flagship health site already publishes generalised
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17 April 2009

Germany’s electronic health card stalls

The introduction of electronic health cards in Germany has been stalled because doctors are refusing to buy the necessary equipment
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16 April 2009

EMRs named top priority in HIMSS survey

Implementing electronic medical records has become the top priority for senior healthcare information professionals, a major US survey has shown.
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9 April 2009

The NHS Number

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Julie Tindale, national clinical lead for the NHS Number Programme, discusses
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8 April 2009

Mandatory incident reporting considered

The House of Commons Health Committee is looking at whether the national reporting of patient safety incidents should be made
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31 March 2009

Hospitals breaking DPA every day

The BMA says hospitals are breaking the Data Protection Act on a daily basis by sending referral correspondence to the
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25 March 2009

Rotherham picks Meditech for EPR

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract to US clinical software supplier Meditech to provide it with a
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23 March 2009

Healthcare Commission calls for better early warning systems

The Healthcare Commission has said that early warning systems on patient safety incidents, which highlight key issues on quality of
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