Patient safety

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29 September 2005

Accreditation for e-prescription service software

Pharmacy software specialist, Systems Solutions, has received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health to transmit prescriptions electronically through N3, the
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27 September 2005

New Cross gets electronic blood bank management

New Cross Hospital, part of the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with the latest version of Technidata’s
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15 August 2005

National Knowledge Service aims high

Building a centralised electronic National Knowledge Service, that will deliver focused clinical knowledge to clinicians when they need it, has
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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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4 August 2005

Wirral’s gateway to care

Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical
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26 July 2005

National patient safety database delivers first results

The National Patient Safety Agency has published its first report on patient safety incidents across the NHS in England and
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12 July 2005

Pharmacy system accredited for ETP

A patient medication record software for pharmacies, eclipsePMR, has successfully completed testing for electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) and will begin
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8 July 2005

Secondary uses pose confidentiality challenge

Meeting the NHS’s need for more information while supporting individuals’ rights to confidentiality is a key challenge for the Secondary
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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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17 May 2005

Data remember

Data transferred between GP systems must be scrupulously examined for errors. E-Health Insider looks at the issues involved and where
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