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3 April 2008

Northern Ireland launches Emergency Care Record

Northern Ireland health minister, Michael McGimpsey, has launched the Northern Ireland Emergency Care Record – a new emergency care project
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25 March 2008

CfH says SCR audit trails ā€˜clunkyā€™

Connecting for Health has acknowledged the audit trail facility in the first Summary Care Record pilots ‘has been clunky’, after minutes from
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18 March 2008

Wales seeks ā€˜urgent approvalā€™ for IHR rollout

The leaders of the Welsh NHS IT programme are calling for urgent approval of the business case for rollout of
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4 March 2008

Patient information: how ICTs can help

Fiona Barr looks at the role information technology can play in providing greater information for patients.
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19 February 2008

New GP leads aim to connect

Dr Peter Short, one of two new GP clinical leads just appointed by Connecting for Health, is clear about how
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19 February 2008

PCT uses text messages to tackle obesity

Hammersmith and Fulham PCT has piloted the use of text messaging to calculate patients’ body mass indexes (BMIs) and contact
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12 February 2008

PCTs to sign-up practices by default to GPSoC

Connecting for Health has told PCTs to sign up GP practices for GP Systems of Choice without getting explicit consent
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29 January 2008

Evidence gap on telehealth needs to be filled

More work is needed to fill the evidence gap on telehealth if it is to enter the mainstream, according to
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18 December 2007

A work in progress

EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr looks back on the developments during 2007 and shape of things to come in
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11 December 2007

Helios Hospitals to connect doctors via EPR

Helios hospital group is launching a Germany-wide electronic patient record project to allow electronic communication with referring doctors in private practices.
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