Prescribing

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26 February 2004

Dawn of globalisation in health IT, Granger tells HIMSS

ORLANDO, Florida – The NHS National Programme for Information Technology is drawing interest on both sides of the Atlantic, a
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24 February 2004

Ascribe recruits former Torex CEO

Manchester-based pharmacy and electronic prescribing systems supplier Ascribe has appointed former Torex Health chief executive Steve Garrington as its commercial
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11 February 2004

New report sets out need for e-prescribing

A new report from the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer on the causes of medicines safety has spelt out the critical role
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19 January 2004

Research points to serious issues in EPR acceptability

A group of researchers at the University of Brighton spent two years looking at how electronic patient records were developed,
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2 January 2004

E-prescribing gets underway at Countess of Chester

A successful pilot for FileTek UK’s Meditech electronic prescribing (EP) system at the Countess of Chester Hospital, Cheshire, has opened
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29 December 2003

Breast cancer and nurse prescribing websites sold

Cambridge University Press has bought two healthcare websites – Breast Cancer Online and Nurse Prescriber as part of an acquisition of
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16 December 2003

TransScript ETP project to close

TransScript ETP, the only UK company dedicated to the development of the Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions (ETP), is to close
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3 December 2003

Technology can reduce or create medication errors

  Technology has the potential both to reduce and to create new types of medication errors – and should be
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29 October 2003

iSOFT bags one of the last local EPR deals

Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £14.9m deal with iSOFT for an electronic patient record (EPR) and
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30 September 2003

ETP Pilots Evaluation Challenged

One of the three consortia set up to test electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) says an official evaluation does not
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