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14 September 2006

Electronic patient information awards announced

  Patient information publications delivered through new media such as DVDs and websites have strongly featured in the results of
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7 September 2006

New group will promote patient access to records

A group has been set up to raise awareness of patient record access nationally and internationally and increase the take-up
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15 August 2006

BMA implements single sign-on system

The British Medical Association have implemented an enterprise-wide single sign-on (ESSO) system to simplify login procedures for staff working in
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31 July 2006

Attachment problems thwart GP2GP transfers

Practices involved in the pilot sites for GP2GP record transfer are unable to send attachments electronically because of problems with
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19 July 2006

Cayton to lead summary records taskforce

Patients’ ‘tsar’ and chair of the Care Records Development Board, Harry Cayton, will lead the taskforce set up to help
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30 June 2006

EHR opt-out debate “doesn’t matter to patients”

The question of whether patients opt into having their electronic records shared or have to specifically request to opt out
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27 June 2006

CfH still sidelining doctors, BMA chair claims

The chairman of the British Medical Association has told his members that “another year has been wasted” in efforts to
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22 June 2006

Teachers’ TV offers e-learning lesson to clinicians

Medical professions could learn a great deal from the education sector in video-based online learning, particularly from projects such as
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30 May 2006

Care records now running 2.5 years late

Health minister Lord Warner has said that plans to introduce an integrated electronic medical record for every NHS patient in
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11 May 2006

NPfIT could ‘transform’ drug reaction reporting

Reporting of adverse drug reactions in England could be transformed by systematic collection through the National Programme for IT, according
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