Health Service Journal
PETER MITCHELL
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All dosed up
16-Mar-2000
All trusts must have electronic prescribing systems by 2005, the NHS information strategy stipulates. One trust has been successfully using such a package for some time, writes Peter Mitchell -
Antibodies of evidence
16-Mar-2000
Increased lab automation means that the tedious job of cross-matching blood samples will soon be passed on to computers, writes Peter Mitchell -
Drug habits in the dock
16-Mar-2000
A recent Appeal Court case has essentially destroyed the Department of Health's self-awarded monopoly on medical data. Peter Mitchell explains -
Go with the flow
16-Mar-2000
GPs have forced on the centre what hospitals and health authorities could not: a climbdown on NHSnet. Peter Mitchell reports -
IT is good at the simple things - but grand strategies fail
16-Mar-2000
COMMENT Electronic health records are too complicated to emulate the success of NHS Direct, believes Peter Mitchell -
Left a bit
24-Feb-2000
The telemedicine toolkit By Roy Lilley and John Navein Radcliffe Medical Press 185 pages £30 -
PCGs welcome slowdown on GP networking timetable
12-Aug-1999
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Coded message: don't DIY
24-Jun-1999
The Read clinical codes fiasco showed up weaknesses in NHS funding and project management. But the fatal flaw was a stubborn insistence on ignoring US developments and going it alone, argues Peter Mitchell -
O what a tangled web we weave
15-Apr-1999
The doctor's Internet handbook -
Revolution comes full circle
12-Dec-1998
Rethinking IT and health Edited by Jo Lenaghan Institute for Public Policy Research 160 pages £7.50 -
Lawyers at large
12-Nov-1998
The legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine By BA Stanberry Royal Society of Medicine Press 172 pages £19.99 -
Government will not order utility firms to put NHS first if IT bug hits
22-Oct-1998
The NHS will have to rely on the good will of power, water and telephone companies for priority treatment if the millennium computer bug hits supplies, it emerged this week. -
Chips with everything
8-Oct-1998
Already stretched to their limits by the year 2000 bug imbroglio, IT managers are now being asked to deliver on Frank Burns' punishing new strategy. Can it be done, wonders Peter Mitchell -
IT strategy loosens Whitehall red tape
24-Sep-1998
The Whitehall straitjacket on IT procurement is being loosened as part of a 'radical modernisation programme' for information management in the NHS. -
Further delay in IT strategy as MPs slam fiasco of Read codes in damning report
6-Aug-1998
The NHS's information technology strategy will not be published until autumn, but is likely to rely heavily on the Read clinical codes despite another damaging report on the programme this week. -
Further delay in IT strategy as MPs slam fiasco of Read codes in damning report
6-Aug-1998
The NHS's information technology strategy will not be published until autumn, but is likely to rely heavily on the Read clinical codes despite another damaging report on the programme this week. -
Costs warning as rise of superbug threatens to defeat antibiotics
23-Jul-1998
Hospital infections caused by MRSA 'superbugs' have leapt by 50 per cent in just one year, unpublished Public Health Laboratory Service figures show. -
IT bug claims its first victim as booking system crashes
18-Jun-1998
The first trust has already fallen victim to the millennium computer bug, the Audit Commission revealed this week. -
Two cheers for HISS
28-May-1998
The hospital information support system project has suffered heavy criticism. But supporters say it has benefits that don't show up in the figures, writes Peter Mitchell -
Christmas 'cancelled' as IT bug panic bites across NHS
23-Apr-1998
Hospitals are set to cancel Christmas leave for many staff next year to guard against potential disaster from the millennium IT bug. -
Log on and like it
2-Apr-1998
NHS head of IT Frank Burns previewed his IM&T strategy at the Healthcare Computing '98 conference. Peter Mitchell was there -
Year 2000 IT bug fixing bill may be three times more than first estimates
2-Apr-1998
The year 2000 computer bug may cost some acute trusts three times more than their estimates because they cannot get advice from their medical imaging equipment suppliers. -
Don't tell a soul
26-Mar-1998
IT staff will have their work cut out tightening up patient confidentiality measures. Peter Mitchell reports
