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Contents

June 2004
Volume 21 Number 5

 
3 Editorial
Mike Fairey introduces this issue. view editorial

In the news this issue

See the News page for summaries of these news articles

ENGLISH NATIONAL PROGRAMME

 6 GPs not to be cowed by LSPs
 6 BMA: doctors not involved in
    NPfIT
 6 HL7 on the way
 6 Front Line Support Academy
    launch
 8 Halligan backs IT training
 8 Hutton quits NPfIT
 8 £60m for PACS procurements

INFORMATION DISCLOSURES

10 Icelandic ruling: gene data
     not protected by
     anonymisation
10 UK wants Europe-wide
     telecomms logs
10 Password-disclosure survey

OF INTEREST

12 iSOFT-Torex to sell off LIMSs
12 Virtual cancer-research
     team plans
13 More IT and more local
     autonomy promise

14 IEE: mobile phones are safe

NATIONAL SYSTEMS

 2 ID card could permit covert
    tracking
 2 Care-insurance cards become
    ID cards
 2 Trusts to check care
    entitlement
 4 Pan-European ehealthcare
    plan
 4 GPASS annoys doctors
 4 Children’s database causes
    revolt

SYSTEMS EVALUATION

11 GP prescribing support
     failures revealed
11 Poor records mask elder
    abuse
12 Poor information systems
     cause organisational failure
12 Cancer websites mislead

VIEWPOINT

13 What NPfIT could do for SMEs

 
2 News
  PATIENT SAFETY
20 Improving patients’ safety: the national reporting and learning system goes live
Clive Flashman explains the aims of the database and how it will be used. view abstract
23 Standardising crashcall numbers in English and Welsh NHS hospitals: the feasibility study
Chris Ranger describes the basis on which the phone number 2222 became the national standard.
view abstract
26 The UK Central Cardiac Audit Database: creating
the wellspring for better care for heart babies
A report by Martin Old on the progress of this unique evidence base. view abstract
29 UKCPRS and coding of medicines — standards or secrets?
Paul Frosdick, Julie James and Christine Dalton outline how the NHS dm+d will ensure computers can exchange medicines and devices data. view abstract
  PRODUCT FEATURES
  Product directories
37 — disease management information for patients
38
— workflow and knowledge/document management
35
What patients want from information leaflets
Neil Hartigan reports the results of a survey of patients at Barnet and Chase Farms Hospitals NHS Trust.
39 Information systems for patient-flow and bed management
Bed-management information systems, and the context for their use, reviewed by Nathan Proudlove.
  REGULARS
16 re:fractions
Dr Peter Murray asks for some radical new ideas for the development of healthcare informatics.
17
ASSIST
There is a need for academically validated evidence of the benefits of NPfIT, argues John Leach.
18
EPR arms
Sean Brennan discusses the importance of clinical coding in clinical communications.
19 Periscope
Advances in the analysis of genome data could be applied to medical-monitoring data to give new diagnostic tools, says William Payne.
34 Knowledgebases
Book reviews and new information sources.
42
Product news
44
Services news
45
Contracts news
46 Wanted

 

 

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