PETER MITCHELL
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Drug habits in the dock
A recent Appeal Court case has essentially destroyed the Department of Health's self-awarded monopoly on medical data. Peter Mitchell explains
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Go with the flow
GPs have forced on the centre what hospitals and health authorities could not: a climbdown on NHSnet. Peter Mitchell reports
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Antibodies of evidence
Increased lab automation means that the tedious job of cross-matching blood samples will soon be passed on to computers, writes Peter Mitchell
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All dosed up
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
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IT is good at the simple things - but grand strategies fail
COMMENT Electronic health records are too complicated to emulate the success of NHS Direct, believes Peter Mitchell
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Left a bit
The telemedicine toolkit By Roy Lilley and John Navein Radcliffe Medical Press 185 pages £30
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Coded message: don't DIY
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
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Revolution comes full circle
Rethinking IT and health Edited by Jo Lenaghan Institute for Public Policy Research 160 pages £7.50
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Lawyers at large
The legal and ethical aspects of telemedicine By BA Stanberry Royal Society of Medicine Press 172 pages £19.99
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Government will not order utility firms to put NHS first if IT bug hits
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.
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Chips with everything
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
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IT strategy loosens Whitehall red tape
The Whitehall straitjacket on IT procurement is being loosened as part of a 'radical modernisation programme' for information management in the NHS.
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Further delay in IT strategy as MPs slam fiasco of Read codes in damning report
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.
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Further delay in IT strategy as MPs slam fiasco of Read codes in damning report
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.
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Costs warning as rise of superbug threatens to defeat antibiotics
Hospital infections caused by MRSA 'superbugs' have leapt by 50 per cent in just one year, unpublished Public Health Laboratory Service figures show.
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IT bug claims its first victim as booking system crashes
The first trust has already fallen victim to the millennium computer bug, the Audit Commission revealed this week.
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Two cheers for HISS
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
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Christmas 'cancelled' as IT bug panic bites across NHS
Hospitals are set to cancel Christmas leave for many staff next year to guard against potential disaster from the millennium IT bug.