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Mobile devices can reinvigorate frontline staff by giving them more time to focus on patient care Recent figures released by the Royal College of Nursing suggest that on average British nurses spend 17.3% of their time on paperwork and clerical tasks instead of caring for patients. This rounds-up to...
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Dame Fiona Caldicott's report emphasises that patients are at risk if clinicians base decisions on inadequate data Plans to share patient information electronically date back to the Blair government's over-ambitious and now defunct NHS national programme for IT . And despite the coalition's...
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St Helens and Knowsley is offering GP practices a service to digitise, store and give staff immediate access to patient records The NHS trust which claimed to be the first to become paperless a year ago is now helping GP practices to do the same. St Helens and Knowsley teaching hospitals NHS trust in...
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St Helens and Knowsley's initiative could become a model as the government pushes to put patient records online by 2014 A teaching hospital in the north-west of England claims it was the first NHS trust in England to become paperless. A year ago, St Helens and Knowsley put the last of its 500,000...
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Healthcare technology entrepreneurs pitch products at Innovation Day conference and aim for a £10,000 startup prize The difficulty with innovation in the health sector is that the NHS isn't always aware of what's happening outside the organisation. Many health entrepreneurs remain "under...
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The Patient from Hell urges GPs to get involved in implementing the reforms as he considers what 2013 holds for healthcare The year 2011 was the year of sound and fury, as the health bill staggered drunkenly through parliament, attacked on every side. 2012 was the year of planning the reforms enshrined...
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In a sign that HHS is serious about small data breaches, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and The Hospice of North Idaho reached a settlement agreement to resolve allegations of a 2010 breach involving 441 patient records. OCR Director Leon Rodriguez reminded the industry that every covered entity, regardless...
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Getting bogged down in paperwork is a genuine concern for chiropractic offices, especially when patient files or billing records can be misplaced, misfiled or lost. Endlessly filling out forms and patient notes by hand is tedious and inefficient. The solution is a paperless chiropractic office management...
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With a new year approaching, we here at Practice Fusion have taken the opportunity to reflect on all that we’ve accomplished in 2012. What a year it’s been! Our very talented design team has outlined a few of our most exciting accomplishments in...
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Find out what our panel of experts said about the future of patient data in the NHS, including boundaries of consent and the use of data for relevant trials Richard Corbridge is Clinical Research Network chief information officer Patients want to take part in research: In June 2011 an Ipsos Mori poll...
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Join us from noon until 2pm Thursday 6 December to discuss the future of patient data in the NHS – including boundaries of consent and the use of data for relevant trials "The most valuable thing we have in health and social care is data," said executive medical director of the NHS Information...
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A breach of personal data could do considerable damage, so trusts must build patient privacy into NHS IT systems Electronic record systems are among the most important healthcare advances of our times. They bring better, more sustainable healthcare and offer the NHS the opportunity to make large savings...
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In an increasingly digital world, NHS websites must be built around patients' needs Historically the NHS and the web have not mixed well. From the furore surrounding initial attempts to introduce e-patient records, to problems with setting up a national application system for junior doctors online...
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A screening programme at the last Special Olympics revealed the shocking extent of health problems among athletes As a physician working in the East End of London, I am familiar with medically under-served populations. Yet when I began volunteering my time and my company's resources with Special...
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West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS trust to introduce new e-patient record system as part of technology strategy West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS trust is planning to invest £67m in an information management and technology (IM&T) strategy over the next five years. A spokeswoman for the trust told Guardian...