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Searching for the assembly instructions
Primary care groups are like a piece of self-assembly furniture with lousy instructions admits Michael Dixon, the new chair of the PCG Alliance. Mark Gould reports
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Snug as a bug in a surgery
Clinical confidentiality is under threat from laws that will allow interception of e-mails and covert surveillance - a practice also known as bugging. Peter Mitchell reports
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NHS Executive is wary of proposals for electronic prescriptions system
The NHS Executive is looking warily at commercial plans to build electronic message channels between GPs and pharmacists.
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Drug firms pre-empt DoH's Prodigy
Doctors and pharmacists will next year receive a CD-ROM detailing available prescription medicines, complete with data sheets, supplied free by the UK drugs industry.
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Report advocates telemedicine throughout Wales
Wales could be the testing ground for telemedicine in the NHS, after an expert feasibility study of telemedicine in mid-Wales concluded by advising the government to roll out the technology across the entire principality.
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IN BRIEF
European hospitals are rapidly moving to computerise their handling of medical images, according to market research company Frost & Sullivan. Last year, sales of medical image management and teleradiology systems increased by 20 per cent, reaching a total of 65 million, said F&S. The main driving force is the spread ...
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Getting to the evidence
The immense growth in sources of information for evidence-based medicine calls for a strategic approach, rather than a piecemeal and fragmented one. Ian Smith and Judy Palmer look at some good examples the task
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Starting up
Creating a shared evidence centre is too big and complex a job to be done in the margins of people's time. You have to plan and resource it properly from the outset. The obvious people to control the project are those in the group responsible for the trust's clinical effectiveness ...
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Using intranet technology
Intranets look ideal for this job, as they give a consistent way of using both internal and external information sources. But the case study sites have found it not as simple as it looks.
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Are clinical guidlines the answer
The New NHS demands that trusts will ensure that good practice, ideas and innovations, when they have been evaluated, are systematically disseminated within and outside the organisation, writes Jonathan Hazan. Trust chief executives will be made ultimately responsible for their quality of service. 'Clinical governance' is the buzz phrase.
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Do you Read me?
The Read codes have been dogged by controversy. But the real question is whether they can be adopted across the NHS, says Mike Cross Senior NHS officials are fighting to save what they see as a precious baby from being thrown out with some murky bathwater.
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Two cheers for HISS
The hospital information support system project has suffered heavy criticism. But supporters say it has benefits that don't show up in the figures, writes Peter Mitchell
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Room service
St Thomas' Hospital is replacing its manual archives with an electronic imaging system that saves space and time.
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HBO announces new prescribing tool
HBO has announced an electronic prescribing addition to its computer- based patient record. The system, called Pathways, was developed by Birmingham University's Wolfson Institute for clinicians at University Hospital Birmingham's renal unit.
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Ambulance trusts to get digital mapping software
The Ordnance Survey has signed a deal with NHS Supplies to make a specialised digital mapping package available to ambulance trusts on the UK mainland.
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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