22nd and 23rd September 2010
Glasgow Science Centre www.glasgowsciencecentre.org
Giving you advance notice that our conference this year will be the biggest and brightest yet! We are staging this event at the prestigious Glasgow Science Centre where you not only have great views over the Clyde and City but complementary entrance to the fun science exhibits. The futuristic building mirrors BCS Health Scotland’s innovative and forward looking approach..
GPs under pressure to share the health files of patients
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GPs say there is pressure to share fuller patient records with hospital colleagues
Published on 27 Feb 2010
Read more on GPs raise concerns over access to medical records across the NHS in Scotland…
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Tensions and Paradoxes in Electronic Patient Record Research: A Systematic Literature Review Using the Meta-narrative Method
Trisha Greenhalgh, Henry W.W. Potts, Geoff Wong, Pippa Bark, and Deborah Swinglehurst
University College London
Filed under Medical Records, Patient management, Technology by on Dec 16th, 2009. Comment.
People can opt out of the system
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Millions of patient records are to go online in London after long delays to an NHS IT upgrade in the city.
The £12bn government programme has been beset with problems and is four years behind schedule.
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Galway Clinic digitises and archives paper records in drive to electronic healthcare record
The Galway Clinic, a 126-bed hospital in the West of Ireland, is implementing a data archiving and management solution from BridgeHead Software to support its drive to create a completely electronic healthcare record.
Read more on Irish Clinic digitises and archives paper records…
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The TRAK community facility will help nurses access more up-to-date files on patients, and allow them to better plan what care is required for them. It is expected the system, which is being used across East Lothian, will be used across the whole health board area by next year.
Read more on TRAK system to help nurses monitor community patients in Lothian…
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Tories face NHS database tangle
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By Ross Hawkins
BBC News political correspondent |
The Tories say their plans will be cheaper than a national database
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The Conservatives want to let you view your health records online.
Read more on Conservatives intend to scrap plans for a central database of patient records….
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By LAURA CUMMINGS
HEALTH chiefs in the Lothians have said they have taken action to protect patient data, after being criticised over two separate cases where medical records were lost.
The health board has been rapped by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which investigated the incidents.
In one, a USB memory stick containing the personal information of 137 patients was lost by a community health worker last June.
The ICO said the memory stick belonged to an employee and should not have been used to store NHS Lothian data.
Also in June last year, a document wallet with 25 paper files about patients was left in a shop.
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Read more on Health chiefs to tighten up security of medical records…
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