coding Archives

1 August 2005

The NHS needs a national overview of data quality and coding integrity as the Payment by Results regime gathers pace,

28 July 2005

A healthcare trust in London is claiming it has saved £1m by recoding its procurement systems from freetext into individual

28 July 2005

EHI speaks to Beverly Malone, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, about the importance of raising awareness of

20 June 2005

The government ‘does not envisage any circumstances’ where a patient’s decision to have some or all of their health record

2 June 2005

Tim Benson from training company Abies explains SNOMED CT, the clinical coding system that forms the basis of the NHS

23 May 2005

Do electronic health records have any force in law? American correspondent Neil Versel reports from the TEPR conference in Salt

11 April 2005

Geoff Bick, director of product development at data analysis software firm CHKS, shows how wide variations in hospitals' approach to

6 April 2005

Case management will not get off the ground unless PCTs, acute trusts and GPs improve their data management and quality,

30 March 2005

A practice manager has tried and failed to prevent her health record, which contains a significant error, being stored in

2 June 2004

The NHS Direct website is not accessible enough for disabled users and contains too many coding errors, whereas the new

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