Crunch time
How will the general election affect NHS IT? E-Health Insider takes a comprehensive look at what each party has to say about the major e-health issues.
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Awards gallery
Photos of the winners and speakers at last week’s
E-Health Innovation Awards ceremony in London, organised by E-Health Insider and Intellect.
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Microsoft in the NHS
Dr Bill Crounse, Microsoft’s Global Healthcare Industry Manager, talks to EHI about Microsoft’s involvement in the NHS IT programme and sets out a vision of interconnected and ubiquitous information in healthcare.
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Results may vary
Geoff Bick, director of product development at data analysis software firm CHKS, shows how wide variations in hospitals’ approach to data management present challenges for Payment by Results.
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Do no harm
Peter Singleton of Cambridge Health Informatics considers the case of a patient who tried to opt out of electronic recording. Efforts to preserve confidentiality go back to Hippocrates, he argues.
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A knotty problem
How can you get hospital systems to talk to bedside devices? Lorin David Kalisky of Capsule Technologie argues the case for connection systems supplied by third-parties.
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Shedding light
E-Health Insider looks at documents released by NPfIT under FOI and describes how you can also make a request.
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Visiting partner
E-Health Insider speaks to Joseph Ternullo, assistant director of Partners HealthCare in the US, about why telemedicine could be the answer to caring for society’s growing numbers of elderly.
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Positive input
EHI Primary Care talks to the clinical director of PRIMIS about recent improvements in GP clinical data.
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Brought to book
GP Mark Davies, clinical lead for the National Programme for IT’s Choose and Book programme, argues the case for Choose and Book and says criticism is unfounded.
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