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12 August 2005

A wristband that checks the right drug? Brilliant

A student at Brunel University has won an industry prize for designing a hospital wristband, called ‘Brilliant’, that can check the dose
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9 June 2005

Tag team care

Colin Jervis of Kinetic Consulting examines some of the innovative ways that RFID tags are being used in patient care
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31 March 2005

NICE backs computerised cognitive behaviour therapy

GPs across England are set to gain access to computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (CCBT) as an option for treating mild
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11 March 2005

Version One updates document imaging with OCR

Version One has announced a new version of its document imaging software used by a number of NHS trusts that
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25 January 2005

Nursing IT study to look at local systems

The Department of Health has funded a £250,000, two-year study into how nurses use IT when making clinical decisions and
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21 December 2004

Decision support software review planned by NICE

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been asked by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to carry out
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18 November 2004

IT key to patient care, says NeLH director

The founding director of the National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH), Dr Muir Gray, has said that the National Programme
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21 October 2004

A few billion between friends?

After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check
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15 June 2004

Electronic hospital prescribing brought forward to 2006

Health Minister Lord Warner is to fast-track the introduction of electronic hospital prescribing in response to the recent report by
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14 August 2003

XML Special Focus: Supporting Clinical Governance

Support for clinical audit and improved clinical governance is one of the great advances promised by electronic medical record systems
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