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Editorial
Mike Fairey introduces this issue.
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In the news this issue
Healthcare Business
10 Weather and hospital
workflows
10 Europe bans Web drug sales
10 PCTs to commission NHS
Direct
12 Privatised egovernment: NHS
testbed?
Information disclosures
2 New Civil Contingencies Bill
2 Extensions to Section 60
powers
4 Pilots for child-protection
databases
4 Consultation on employees’
health information
5 Fraud control wins access to
GPs’ records
5 Mental-health record thefts
5 DoH statistics, DPA and FoI
clash
Letter
16 NPfIT: What’s in it for GPs?
Research front
6 MobiMed for French
ambulances
6 Otelo: telerobot performs
ultrasound scans
6 Belfast’s remote heart-
watching
7 Swiss virtual autopsies
7 Digital-divide evidence
8 eICP trials for heart failure
8 Smart walking frame
8 Medical devices out, PC cards
in
Service delivery
12 IT industry’s code of new
practice
12 NAO and Treasury’s service-
delivery guide
13 More delays for Edinburgh HIS
13 NPfIT contracts: lion’s share
for BT
14 BT to rollout ETP
14 StHAs not ready for NPfIT
14 NPfIT takes in IPU.
Is NHSIA next?
23 Practice guidelines for
telemedicine
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News |
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MEDICAL TELEMONITORING
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Patients’ use of self-telemonitoring in
21st century clinical care in the community
It’s easy, affordable and very useful. Dr Paul Johnson
explains how, what and why, as well as users’ responses.
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Alleviating the COPD burden with ICTs
Tony Rice and Dr Kevin Doughty describe how
self-telemonitoring has been put to use in a Northern Ireland trial.
view abstract |
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The European Health Telematics
Association
Benedict Stanberry describes the achievements and plans of
this influential body. view abstract |
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Findings from a venture into elearning in NHS Wales
Ruth Treharne and Professor Siobhan McClelland
share their discovery of barriers to professional development
among managers. view abstract
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PRODUCT FEATURES
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Product directories |
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— diagnostic-decision support |
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— enterprise information systems
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NPfIT contracts: winners and losers
There were surprises in the award of contracts and some big names lost
out. William Payne tells who got a slice (or two) of
the pie and who got nothing.
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PAIRS: a diagnostic decision-support
engine
Dr AM Mohan Rao describes the development of this system’s
underlying artificial intelligence. |
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Common Services Agency takes a trip with
Galaxy
Alasdair Kilgour describes the rollout of a data back-up and
restore solution for the Agency’s eight sites across Scotland. |
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REGULARS
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Periscope
William Payne looks at two US projects using ICTs to aid
healthcare in developing countries. |
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EPR Arms
Sean Brennan thinks its time to stop moaning and to
focus on making the CRS work.
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re:fractions
Dr Peter Murray reports on further developments in the
open-source community.
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Knowledgebases
Book reviews and new information sources |
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Product news
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Services 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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Wanted |
