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7 April 2006

EHRs cause behaviour changes in doctors, says study

A study published in the Annals of Family Medicine has revealed that family doctors who use electronic health records instead
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6 April 2006

GPs demand ‘urgent action’ on GPASS

Leading GP IT representatives have written to Scottish health minister Andy Kerr to demand urgent action to improve the GPASS
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6 April 2006

Patient surveys launched into hospital call costs

  A national campaign to discover the views of patients and visitors hospital bedside television and telephone services has been
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6 April 2006

Bluetooth ID badge handwashing monitor proposed

A team of academics, clinicians and computer scientists have developed a system that uses a Bluetooth-based wearable ID tag to
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5 April 2006

European healthcare IT outsourcing set to grow

A new market report has predicted that rising healthcare costs and the rising complexity of healthcare IT systems will compel
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5 April 2006

Birmingham ‘OwnHealth’ project begins

Up to 2000 patients with long term conditions are to be enrolled in a telephone-based care management system from this
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5 April 2006

Younger people more likely to use mobile healthcare

  Younger people are more likely to call NHS Direct on their mobiles than make an appointment to see their
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4 April 2006

NHS24 to get access to emergency care records

Scotland is to allow NHS24 access to emergency care summaries of patients’ GP records from June, subject to explicit consent
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4 April 2006

Ready for liftoff

The MOD is about to announce its final plans for electronic health records in the military. Jon Hoeksma looks at
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4 April 2006

Trusts make use of orthopaedic template software

Ferrania UK has announced that eight NHS trusts are now using its LifeWeb TraumaCad orthopaedic templating software. The TraumaCad solution
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