Nurses bogged down by red tape Published Date: 10 October 2010 By Lyndsay Moss NURSES in Scotland are “overloaded” with paperwork which is stopping them caring for patients, leaders of the profession have warned. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said evidence suggested administrative tasks take up two-thirds of nurses’ time at work. In a manifesto [...]
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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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Here is a letter from Dr Charles Swainson in the Evening News. Centralised records improve healthcare I was dismayed to read Dr John Welford’s letter, “System to blame for record losses, not medical staff” (News, 31 July). Centralisation and computerisation of medical records have little to do with losing patients’ confidential medical information. The mass [...]
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NHS facilities in Scotland are currently trialling the use of handheld computers among doctors and nurses. It is hoped that by distributing information to healthcare professionals electronically, the amount of paper they use will be reduced. The technology should also allow staff to access and update patient records while they are on the move, thereby [...]
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Hospitals roll out hand-held computers giving doctors and nurses instant access to database By Tom Gordon SCOTLAND IS set to become the first country in the world with an entirely paperless health service, as wireless hand-held computers allow doctors and nurses to check and update patient records wherever they go. The machines let staff move [...]
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