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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 October 2007

New information governance board announced

Members of the new National Information Governance Board for health and social care in England, the body who will be
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5 September 2007

Granger’s successor remains a mystery

Richard Granger’s successor as chief executive of Connecting for Health and director general of IT at the Department of Health
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22 August 2007

Patients need assurance on online health records

Patients need to be convinced that electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are safe and will benefit them, a group of
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27 June 2007

BMJ Health Intelligence launched

The BMJ Group has launched a web-based public health resource including data, cost effectiveness information plus information on local projects,
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2 April 2007

GP records play key role in most popular paper

A database of anonymised GP records was the source for the most popular research paper of 2005 published by the
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22 January 2007

BMJ says it will have to charge for BestTreatments

The BMJ Group says the Department of Health’s withdrawl of funding from its award-winning website BestTreatments means it will now probably have to
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5 January 2007

Computers – the greatest medical breakthrough?

Computers have been shortlisted in a British Medical Journal poll to determine the greatest medical breakthrough since 1840. They are one
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9 November 2006

CfH confirm switch to Prodigy for clinical evidence

Connecting for Health have confirmed they have awarded a five year contract to provide Clinical Knowledge Summaries (CKS) to a
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17 October 2006

CfH wields axe on funding Clinical Evidence

Clinical Evidence will no longer be freely available to clinicians in England after NHS Connecting for Health failed to agree
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