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18 November 2008

BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: the finalists

All the finalists in this year’s awards, along with a description of their projects.
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10 November 2008

One small step for Lorenzo

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has given Lorenzo a soft landing. Lyn Whitfield went to see it in
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27 October 2008

Chester aims at discharge summary target

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has introduced software from Medisec to meet NHS targets for the delivery
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23 October 2008

First ever record standards to improve discharge summaries

Profession-wide standards for medical records in hospitals have been agreed.
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22 October 2008

Getting records up to standard

NHS Connecting for Health and the Royal College of Physicians talk about the new standards issued for records in the
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17 October 2008

GPs say lack of discharge data puts patients at risk

One in four GPs has seen patient safety put at risk in the past six months because hospitals have failed
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9 October 2008

Healthcare Interoperability Preview

Brian Derry tells Jon Hoeksma why interoperability underpins the future digital NHS.
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13 August 2008

Walsall begins in-house e-discharge project

Walsall Manor Hospital has begun the first stage of an in-house electronic discharge summary project, designed to increase communication between
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22 July 2008

SCR could hold ‘end of life’ plans

The Summary Care Record (SCR) could be used to share end of life care plans and resuscitation details, according to
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7 January 2008

Discharge letter targets will create two-tier care

The NHS Alliance claims government targets for discharge letters will create a two tier system on a critical patient safety
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