Safety

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23 April 2008

Swedish centre mines drug reaction data

A Swedish monitoring centre is using data mining techniques to help identify adverse drug reactions based on Yellow Card patient
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23 April 2008

CfH buys 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards

Connecting for Health has purchased 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards as part of a new initiative to help keep IT equipment infection
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22 April 2008

Prof Sir Bruce Keogh interim DH IT director general

Sir Professor Keogh, the Department of Health’s medical director, is to become the department’s interim director general of informatics. He
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21 April 2008

Readers’ insight into e-prescribing needed…

EHI is calling for readers to provide their views on the development of acute e-prescribing to inform a round table
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21 April 2008

Scottish government funds telecare and IT research

University of Edinburgh is to receive a share of £4m funding from the Scottish government to research telemetric supported self-monitoring
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18 April 2008

NHS CfH joins open source health collaboration

Open Health Tools has announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies
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17 April 2008

Wellpoint Sentinel System to monitor drug safety

US health insurer WellPoint Inc is developing a system that will use its 35m member database to monitor and more
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10 April 2008

Bolton moves to online pharmacy system

Actor Dave Spikey helps launch Bolton’s new robotic dispensing system. The Royal Bolton Hospital, part of the Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, has
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9 April 2008

Philips provides speech-recognition to Oslo hospital

Philips has agreed a new deal to deploy SpeechMagic across the Ulleval University Hospital in Oslo, Norway’s largest clinical centre.
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7 April 2008

Pharmacists may get access to patient care records

The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved.
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