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Editorial
Mike Fairey introduces this issue.
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In the news this issue
GENETIC INFORMATION
2 Our inheritance, our future
published
2 UK falls short of Human Rights
and Biomedicine Convention
INFORMATION DISCLOSURES
4 Access to Yellow Card data
reviewed
4 Security safeguards a mystery
to doctors
4 New confidentiality code
LETTER
9 User buy-in a priority for
NPfIT’s success
NATIONAL SYSTEMS
6 All-children database shelved?
6 Peers want better disease
surveillance
6 Terrorism: plans for disaster
recovery
8 Poor IT delays staff vetting
8 ESCR being defined
8 Booking systems don’t reduce
waits
9 PFI no good for IT
9 NPfIT shortlists for ICRS
contracts
RECORDS MANAGEMENT
4 Missing: basic theatre-
management data
5 EPRs could create class
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News |
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PERSPECTIVES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
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Have over 35 years of health informatics
made Europe healthier?
Some thoughts to ponder, provoked by Dr John Bryden.
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EPR project for the NN Burdenko
Neurosurgical Institute: goals, technology, results, future trends
Dr Michael Shifrin, Elena Kalinina and Eugine
Kalinin share their approach to a versatile solution.
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Interoperable healthcare information
system components for continuity of care
Germany’s ongoing development of its telematics platform described
by Professor Bernd Blobel. view
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Health informatics strategy and progress
in Denmark
Drs Søren Lippert and Arne Kverneland
outline plans for interoperable healthcare.
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PRODUCT FEATURES
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Product directories |
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— picture archiving and communications
systems |
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— network management tools
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Seeing the light with
electronic booking
Louise Curtis explains how an ophthalmology centre updated
its patient management solution. |
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Data storage for PACS
Data storage is the most critical aspect of planning a PACS, says
Stewart Buchanan. |
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REGULARS
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re:fractions
Nurses could ensure that the ICRS works; or to make it the biggest
disaster in IT history says Dr Peter Murray. |
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ASSIST
A reminder that communication leads to co-operation and change,
from Keith Clough . |
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EPR Arms
We need to gather the evidence of benefit says Sean Brennan. |
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Periscope
William Payne reviews developments in sand-grain-sized
computers.
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Knowledgebases
Book reviews and new information sources |
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Services news |
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Product news
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Contracts news
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Tenders
Selected tender notices from the Official Journal of the European
Community. |
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Conferences & courses
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