Keep track of your blood pressure records.
Watch them on a pretty chart. Share them with your doctor. Let your Facebook and Twitter friends know how you’re doing. Oh, and it’s free.
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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.
Read more on Health e-records 'struggling to fulfil potential'…
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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.
Read more on Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon launches the Patient Management System…
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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
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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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