electronic doctors
Web 2.0 driving second internet boom
News Homes will have between 100Mbps and 1Gbps broadband as a minimum, people will be able to have video appointments with their doctors and devices and content will increasingly cross over from the consumer environment to the workplace, according to... [25 Jul 2007]
NHS IT project rolled out nationwide
News The national rollout of version 1.1 of GP2GP will initially be for doctors' practices with two clinical systems - EMIS LV 5.2 and INPS Vision 3 - with further suppliers due to join the rollout at a later date.silicon.com Public Sector [24 Jul 2007]
Richard Granger's NHS IT legacy
News While Granger's hard-headed and no-nonsense approach meant tough new contracts for suppliers, which would only get paid for systems they actually delivered, it also led to accusations of a project being imposed on the NHS with little input from... [18 Jun 2007]
Son Dureta Enhances Patient Care With Centralized, Integrated, Lifelong Healthcare Management
The challenge was to insure the integrity of patient data and restrict access to authorized doctors, nurses, laboratory teams, and administrators. The hospital wanted to meet regional government commitments to improve the speed and quality of... [17 May 2007]
Son Dureta Enhances Patient Care With Centralized, Integrated, Lifelong Healthcare Management
White Paper The challenge was to insure the integrity of patient data and restrict access to authorized doctors, nurses, laboratory teams, and administrators. The hospital wanted to meet regional government commitments to improve the speed and quality of... [17 May 2007]
HP iPAQ Pocket PCs Help Improve Patient Care
White Paper The EHR even gave doctors access to patient information stored in their practice systems. To enhance patient care and drive workplace efficiencies, Heritage Valley worked with physicians over several years to develop and deploy an Electronic Health... [16 Apr 2007]
Patients get NHS e-record opt out
News Because the information will be available to medics anywhere in the country, ministers argue the system will help patients by giving A&E doctors or paramedics access to vital information that would otherwise sit in a GP's files. [18 Dec 2006]
Major change needed to NHS IT programme
News And there should be a focus on local implementations in hospitals and doctors' practices to encourage clinical involvement and give quicker benefits, the report said. There are "major issues" about the sharing of electronic patient data which need... [15 Dec 2006]
Brampton Factor: NHS IT - can this project be saved?
Comment Changes to greater reliance on electronic systems have shifted the ownership of data away from doctors towards administrators, who are much less constrained by ethical commitments. Surveys of NHS staff are showing decreasing buy-in and senior... [19 Sep 2006]
Taskforce aims to end NHS care records row
News One data security risk highlighted by doctors is the sharing of computer passwords in hospitals, a practice which allows locum doctors to access systems. Clinical experts and patients' representatives have been appointed to a new government... [20 Jul 2006]
Boots tests e-prescription technology
Case Study Pharmacists won't have to try to decode doctors' handwriting for too much longer - Boots the Chemist will soon start testing systems that will in the future allow it to dispense electronic prescriptions. [28 Jun 2006]
GPs get £1 a patient incentive to use NHS IT
News The incentive has been introduced as part of revisions to GP general medical service contracts from 1 April 2006, and means doctors can claim 96p per registered patient they refer to a consultant through Choose and Book. [13 Jun 2006]
Interview: NHS IT director general Richard Granger
Comment But some hospital doctors want a full view of everything that might be relevant to treating the patient in front of them and many GPs want the information they collected with a patient on a basis of trust. [26 May 2006]
Electronic Medical Remittance Advice and Payments: A Critical Transition for Healthcare
White Paper Traditionally, healthcare payments from claims payers, such as insurance companies, to healthcare providers, such as doctors' offices and hospitals, have been entirely paper-based. Electronic submission of medical remittance advice and payments are... [26 May 2006]
Voice Over IP and HIPAA Compliance: Why Are There No Standards Set?
White Paper This law is also designed to set standards for the sharing of PHI within the medical community (doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and insurance companies). HIPAA has both privacy rules for PHI and Security rules for Electronic Protected Health... [28 Apr 2006]
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