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IBM introduces medical jargon to speech system
IBM has introduced a medical vocabulary for its PC-based ViaVoice Gold continuous speech recognition system. The vocabulary can significantly reduce the time spent re-typing medical records and reports, and enables radiographers and clinicians to prepare hands-free notes, says IBM.
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IN BRIEF
Staff at BUPA hospitals in Leeds and Manchester are referring pathology lab samples to each other electronically, using WinPath lab management software from William Woodard. Leeds sends microbiology samples to Manchester and receives endocrinology requests in return. Sample requests and results are exchanged by e-mail, instead of the previous fax ...
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Check-up time
Despite renewed government emphasis on effectiveness, trusts vary enormously in their commitment to clinical audit. Rowena Barnes and Karen Hansed explain
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Trust in the community
Management support is crucial to the success of primary care groups. Heather Sim suggests how to bring everyone on board
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Don't stop praying
Rarely has mental health been more in the political eye; rarely has there been greater potential to improve mental health services.
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on the record
JANE KEEP is special projects adviser at the NHS Confederation and a fellow of Birmingham University's health services management centre. She has worked in the NHS for 18 years, including in acute units in Oxford and Bristol and at a nurse education college in Birmingham.
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Lore on audit
There's much talk about the value of clinical audit - in theory. Now a survey of trusts offers an overview of the real costs and benefits of their clinical audit departments. Rowena Barnes and Karen Hansed explain
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Calls for halt to £200m PFI development
Calls for Scotland's most prestigious hospital building project to be pulled out of the private finance initiative intensified this week with a row over data.
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Protest against debt in the developing world
Debt-ermined: doctors, nurses and medical students joined a 50,000-strong human chain around Birmingham's International Convention Centre and surrounding buildings last Saturday to protest to G8 leaders against debt in the developing world.
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Slow-acting remedy
A survey of community trusts found little movement towards evidence-based practice and considerable ignorance of the research and development strategy. Kimmy Eldridge and Nigel South report
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Bringing back 'home rule'
A 'yes' vote in tomorrow's referendum will signal fundamental changes to Northern Ireland's health service. Pat Healy reports
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The human factor
Trusts and HAs may not have the capacity to cope with the new human resources strategy. Mark Crail reports
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Royal blues
A powerful political and medical alliance is calling for a halt to the £200m Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh PFI deal. Barbara Millar reports
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US and them
With the US pharmaceutical giants targeting the elusive UK market, the issue of whether drug companies should be able to advertise their wares direct to the public is more pertinent than ever. Caroline White reports