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How e-coding can prevent NHS slip-ups
Comment For example, more than 30 per cent of all adverse drug events are preventable and appear to be consequences of medication errors during prescription, transcription, processing or administration. How can electronic coding... [20 May 2009]
High-tech shot in the arm for 1,800 hospital beds
News The UK's largest rollout of a hospital electronic prescription system is nearing completion in Birmingham. The ePrescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system will manage medicines for the more than 1,800... [19 Jan 2009]
The 10 projects at the heart of NHS IT
News Find out more about the 10 key NHS IT projects NHS Care Records Service Choose and Book The Electronic Prescription Service N3 national broadband network Picture Archiving and... [10 Nov 2008]
MedPointe Pharmaceuticals Keeps Improving Customer Service and Worker Productivity With Good Technology
White Paper MedPointe is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, markets and sells branded prescription therapeutics in the areas of allergy/respiratory, neurology and cough/cold. In the competitive specialty... [12 Jun 2008]
Aventail SSL VPNs: The Right Prescription for Healthcare
White Paper Finding the right remote access solution for healthcare presents unique challenges. You need to provide access to increasingly mobile physicians while ensuring that strict security and privacy regulations are enforced. [13 Dec 2007]
Boots aiming to shave £30m off annual IT costs
News Just over £200m of that new investment went into the in-store IT infrastructure, which includes a new pharmacy system that will link to the NHS' e-prescription service, 15,000 new touchscreen tills to... [25 Apr 2007]
Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment About two-thirds of that total investment - just over £200m - went into the in-store IT infrastructure, which includes a new pharmacy system that will link to the NHS' e-prescription service, 15,000 new... [25 Apr 2007]
NHS signs up SAS in fight against fraud
News The NHS CFS claims to have saved the health service more than £800m in fraud detection since 1999 and government figures released last August show overall patient fraud - such as prescription fraud - losses have been cut... [24 Jan 2007]
Organon Pakistan Achieves Financial Integrity With Help From Jaffer Consulting
White Paper Organon - with shared head offices in Roseland, NJ, U.S.and Oss, The Netherlands - creates, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines that improve the health and quality of human life. Organon Pakistan maintains... [22 Dec 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]
The nine projects at the heart of NHS IT
News The Electronic Prescription Service The new system will streamline the existing arrangements and improve accuracy and safety because prescription information will only be typed in once. The Electronic... [19 Jan 2006]
Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals Saves 50 Percent of Its IT Budget With Oracle E-Business Suite On Demand
White Paper Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals (3RP) is a privately owned pharmaceutical company that develops and markets generic prescription drugs. While still in its start-up phase, the company decided it wanted a technology... [04 Aug 2005]
5 years ago: First prescription delivered online
News 27.01.00: The first electronic prescription is delivered via healthcare site PlanetRx.com. Lyle Berkowitz, a physician based in Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, wrote out a prescription on 21... [27 Jan 2005]
Domain name registrars sued over patent infringement
News The site allowed patients to email those doctors to schedule appointments and request prescription refills via an online interface. Two internet entrepreneurs are suing Network Solutions and Register.com for allegedly... [16 Jan 2004]
Through the fog... The Functional Infrastructure
Comment All of a sudden, the problems of taking large monolithic 'solutions', often with requirements for the changing of business processes to match the pro/prescription of the underlying application becomes a bit of an... [01 Sep 2003]
