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The British Journal of Healthcare Computing and Information Management

Contents

July 2006
Volume 23 Number 6
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ENGLISH NATIONAL PROGRAMME

 2 NAO report on
the NPfIT

 3 BMA’s concerns about the nCRS

 4 New taskforce for nCRS rollout

 4 Informing choice: CEO concerns

OF INTEREST

 5 How patients choose hospitals

 5 Health sector spending too little on software

 5 Once-rejected Australian service-card plan resurfaces

 5 ‘Terminator’ terminates HIV privacy

 5 Cat loses website

12 UK computers help search for drugs against avian flu

18 Salary details must be disclosed

SCOTTISH ECARE PROGRAMME

 4 eCare poised for national rollout

 
3 Editorial
Mike Fairey introduces the lead articles. view editorial
2 News
 EHR INTEROPERABILITY
9 Building the foundations for better healthcare in Wales. Dr Gwyn Thomas explains how a set of new information services is being formed. view abstract
13 The ICT plan for better patient journeys on the Isle of Man. Sean Brennan and Paul Harper outline how healthcare and socialcare services are to be modernised. view abstract
 NHS REFORMATION
16 ‘18 Weeks’: spinal trauma for informatics camels.
ASSIST is calling for new policies to include formal assessment of informatics requirements. Brian Derry explains why. view abstract

 MULTI-AGENCY WORKING

19 Enabling multi-agency child care in Rotherham. William Payne reports on some groundbreaking work.
 ENABLING MOBILE AND FLEXIBLE WORKING
 22 An introduction to collaboration technology. By Désirée Betts.
25 Technology in action: Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust. Welsh wards go wireless.
26
Mobile technology — benefits for the healthcare practitioner. By Steve Groom.
29
Opinion. IP DECT — the mobile technology of now. By Chris de Silva.
31 Technology in action: Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, Louisiana. NSP gives doctors remote access in emergency.
32 Mobile-device usage in the healthcare sector. Results of bjhc&im and Pointsec research.
33 Product directory: enabling mobile and flexible working.
 REGULARS
7 re:fractions. The BCSHIF response to the consultation on Informing healthier choices by Dr Jean Roberts.
21

Knowledgebases. Book reviews and new information resources.
34 Periscope. RFID may help bring about safer radiation treatments, says William Payne.
35
40 Last Bytes
  Cover photo: sheep grazing on mountains north of Swansea Valley. Photographer Carl Ryan.

 

 

 

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