Data quality

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Evercare pilots highlight need for better data

Case management will not get off the ground unless PCTs, acute trusts and GPs improve their data management and quality,
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Do no harm

Peter Singleton of Cambridge Health Informatics considers the case of a patient who tried to opt out of electronic recording.
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Legal issues with GP data transfer mooted at HC2005

GPs who move their electronic patient record data to new systems may have to keep the old ones running concurrently
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Positive input

EHI Primary Care talks to the clinical director of PRIMIS about recent improvements in GP clinical data.
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Brent goes live with Graphnet drug action team solution

Brent Primary Care Trust, north west London, has gone live with a new system developed by Graphnet to enable drug
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EMIS users urged to protest about systems choice

The head of the EMIS National User Group (NUG) has written to all EMIS users calling on them to lobby
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Patients need access to electronic records, say academics

Patients can and should have access to their electronic health records, in order to keep them up-to-date and accurate, a
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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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Harrogate GPs get order communications

GPs in Harrogate are now able to request pathology tests online using an order communications system implemented by Anglia Healthcare
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StHAs report improved data quality with eDQRS

Positive reports from NHS users of the web-based service, eDQRS, say it is a major asset for improving data quality
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