Audit

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26 July 2004

Secure email for health unscrambles new markets

Kodak’s Secure Email System (SES), which up until now has been used solely in healthcare, has been made available to
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20 July 2004

MRSA reporting to be improved by electronic lab link

Long-standing data quality problems with recorded occurrences of MRSA may be improved by the introduction of electronic incident reporting systems in
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15 June 2004

Electronic hospital prescribing brought forward to 2006

Health Minister Lord Warner is to fast-track the introduction of electronic hospital prescribing in response to the recent report by
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9 June 2004

Charing Cross introduces robotic drug dispensing

Two newly installed electronic dispensing systems at London’s Charing Cross Hospital, one of which uses robotics, are improving improving the speed and
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8 June 2004

Don’t forget IT input when planning PACS

Beware of overlooking vital IT input when planning a new digital picture archiving and communications system (PACS), the UK Radiology Congress
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7 May 2004

New national audit rolls out for head and neck cancers

A new audit system for head and neck cancers started its roll-out this week in Greater Manchester, Humberside, Lancashire, Merseyside
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4 March 2004

Parliamentary briefing paper sets out challenges for NPfIT

A new parliamentary briefing paper on the National Programme for IT has highlighted stakeholder involvement, communications, "imposing change on a
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11 February 2004

New report sets out need for e-prescribing

A new report from the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer on the causes of medicines safety has spelt out the critical role
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21 January 2004

Renal Services NSF information strategy published

The Department of Health has published its information strategy to help support delivery of the National Service Framework (NSF) for
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19 January 2004

Research points to serious issues in EPR acceptability

A group of researchers at the University of Brighton spent two years looking at how electronic patient records were developed,
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