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27 November 2007

NHS Alliance calls for independent coding

PCTs and hospital trusts should employ independent coders to eliminate concerns over incorrect coding from secondary care, according to the
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27 November 2007

Main NPfIT contractors paid £1.2bn last year

Despite continued delays in many areas of the National Programme for IT,Connecting for Health paid its main contractors over £1.5bn
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26 November 2007

Overseas data work under review, say reports

The government is reportedly reviewing whether sensitive information about NHS patients could be sent overseas for processing. A leaked internal
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26 November 2007

Cisco looks ahead to ‘virtual healthcare’

Network technology and services giant Cisco has a ‘vision’ of the services and capabilities required to make e-health a reality,
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26 November 2007

Security clampdown on NSTS batch deliveries

A clampdown on deliveries of unencrypted data sent by regular mail services has been announced by the NHS Strategic Tracing
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26 November 2007

NoemaLife launch Galileo e-health platform

NoemaLife has launched a new eHealth application platform called Galileo, designed to help exchange information and share resources across the
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26 November 2007

Problems with SUS hamper commissioning

The Department of Health must resolve problems with the Secondary Uses Service if practice-based commissioning (PBC) is to succeed, according
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26 November 2007

QoF: measuring performance, missing the point

Mechanistic management strategies – embedded into computer software – become fixed and static presenting the danger that innovation will be stifled,
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26 November 2007

Tavistock and Portman extend CareNotes use

Staff at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust are extending the use of their CareNotes patient care record system
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23 November 2007

Dudley rolls out digital dictation

The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is to deploy WinScribe digital dictation across the trust in a bid to
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