Safety

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Surgical data reduces mortality

A study has revealed that since surgeons started publishing data on outcomes for people undergoing heart operations, mortality rates have
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System C buys Liquidlogic

Healthcare IT software and services specialist System C has purchased UK social services software supplier Liquidlogic.
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MPs back technology for patient safety

MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve
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iSoft Synergy to start GP2GP testing

Progress on the GP2GP electronic records transfer programme remains on track with plans to start testing iSoft’s Synergy system at
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Plain on self-assessment Odyssey

Clinical decision support specialist Plain Healthcare is piloting a system that enables patients to self-assess their symptoms online before seeing a
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GP bodies clash on SCR

The Royal College of General Practitioners has publicly backed the Summary Care Record following criticism of its consent model by
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Safety focus at BCSPHSG conference

Patient safety when using interoperable systems and sharing data will come under the spotlight at the British Computer Society’s Primary
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Hope: first EPS R2 site this summer

The first early adopter site for Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service is expected to begin this summer, according
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Orebro first with Swedish summary record

InterSystems has announced that the first stage of the Swedish National Patient Summary Project has been successfully deployed.
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DEBUGIT workshop on IT for patient safety

The first international workshop on IT for patient safety is to be held in conjunction with the ninth International Conference
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