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4 May 2005

BMA issues FOI guidelines for GPs

The BMA has issued new guidance to General Practitioners on the Freedom of Information Act advising them to be open
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3 May 2005

Americans want personal health records

The majority of Americans want to be able to access an online personal health record (PHR), providing them with details
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3 May 2005

Release QoF data if asked, BMA advises

GPs are being advised to release Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) data before national figures are published if their practices
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29 April 2005

Scottish GPs win choice over practice systems

  Scottish GPs will be able to change IT system provider under a new deal announced yesterday. The Scottish Executive
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29 April 2005

Germany joins hospital RFID pilots

Germany has joined the growing number of countries experimenting with wireless tagging of hospital patients to improve safety and provide easier access
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29 April 2005

Hospital e-mail filter can weed out drug spam

Hammersmith Hospitals NHS trust has installed a spam e-mail filter which the manufacturers say is sophisticated enough to tell genuine
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28 April 2005

Organ donors to be recruited via digital TV

The red button on the digital television remote control is set to become the latest channel for recruiting desperately needed
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28 April 2005

Data mining can help epilepsy treatment

A study in the US has shown that computer software has proved to be useful in estimating the prevalence and
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28 April 2005

No show from iSOFT at GP2GP transfer meeting

One of the leading GP system suppliers has been criticised after dropping out of a demonstration of GP2GP record transfer
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27 April 2005

Crunch time

How will the general election affect NHS IT? E-Health Insider takes a comprehensive look at what each party has to
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