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Open for Registrations 22nd and 23rd September 2010 Register now for the most exciting eHealth conference in Scotland this year! Held at the prestigious Glasgow Science Centre you not only have a great programme, wide range of exhibitors, great views over the Clyde and City but complementary entrance to the fun science exhibits as well! [...]
By Nick Triggle Health reporter, BBC News Electronic patient care records will require an “enormous effort” and a “high cost” to fulfil their potential, a study warns. University College London researchers said the project had been dogged by technology problems and tensions which had led to delays. They said early evidence from users also suggested [...]
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NHS computer system 29/03/2010 A new £44 million IT system which will pave the way for a paper-free NHS was today launched. The Patient Management System (PMS) will be used to streamline in-patient and out-patient bookings, manage waiting lists, order tests and report test results. Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said that PMS is the first [...]
Filed under Medical Records, Scottish Government, Technology by on Mar 29th, 2010. Comment.
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 [...]
GPs under pressure to share the health files of patients EXCLUSIVE: Helen Puttick, Health Correspondent Published on 27 Feb 2010 Doctors fear confidential medical records belonging to millions of Scots could be accessed at thousands of computer terminals across the Scottish NHS. GPs say they are coming under increasing pressure to release files containing patients’ [...]
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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 Context: The extensive research literature on electronic patient records (EPRs) presents challenges to systematic reviewers because it covers multiple research traditions with different underlying [...]
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People can opt out of the system 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. The records, which contain details of patient medications and allergies, will go [...]
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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. The state-of-the-art medical facility, which provides acute and secondary [...]
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AN electronic system is being developed to help health agencies share information on adults receiving community care. 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 [...]
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