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4 August 2005

Wirral’s gateway to care

Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical
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4 August 2005

Patients rate good local services above choice

A report into patient choice has argued that while Choose and Book is seen by the public as a positive service
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1 August 2005

National data quality review called for

The NHS needs a national overview of data quality and coding integrity as the Payment by Results regime gathers pace,
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29 July 2005

Doctor tagged with RFID worries about privacy

An A&E doctor and CIO who has had an RFID tag implanted into his arm on which his medical reference
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22 July 2005

Trust with CEO linked to IT supplier rapped

The Audit Commission has criticised "lack of attention to good governance" in a hospital trust that procured IT services from
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21 July 2005

Consultation highlights concerns over NCRS ownership

Concerns over who will own the summary record on the spine and how the summary data will be validated are
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23 June 2005

UCLH makes switch to Carecast

University College London Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go live with the new electronic
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2 June 2005

New professional standards for team records

Regulators of health professionals have signed up to new standards for keeping records of team-based care in all formats, including
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2 June 2005

Code of practice

Tim Benson from training company Abies explains SNOMED CT, the clinical coding system that forms the basis of the NHS
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23 May 2005

Judge for yourself

Do electronic health records have any force in law? American correspondent Neil Versel reports from the TEPR conference in Salt
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