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Using intranet technology
Intranets look ideal for this job, as they give a consistent way of using both internal and external information sources. But the case study sites have found it not as simple as it looks.
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Are clinical guidlines the answer
The New NHS demands that trusts will ensure that good practice, ideas and innovations, when they have been evaluated, are systematically disseminated within and outside the organisation, writes Jonathan Hazan. Trust chief executives will be made ultimately responsible for their quality of service. 'Clinical governance' is the buzz phrase.
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Do you Read me?
The Read codes have been dogged by controversy. But the real question is whether they can be adopted across the NHS, says Mike Cross Senior NHS officials are fighting to save what they see as a precious baby from being thrown out with some murky bathwater.
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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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Room service
St Thomas' Hospital is replacing its manual archives with an electronic imaging system that saves space and time.
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HBO announces new prescribing tool
HBO has announced an electronic prescribing addition to its computer- based patient record. The system, called Pathways, was developed by Birmingham University's Wolfson Institute for clinicians at University Hospital Birmingham's renal unit.
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Ambulance trusts to get digital mapping software
The Ordnance Survey has signed a deal with NHS Supplies to make a specialised digital mapping package available to ambulance trusts on the UK mainland.
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IBM introduces medical jargon to speech system
IBM has introduced a medical vocabulary for its PC-based ViaVoice Gold continuous speech recognition system. The vocabulary can significantly reduce the time spent re-typing medical records and reports, and enables radiographers and clinicians to prepare hands-free notes, says IBM.
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IN BRIEF
Staff at BUPA hospitals in Leeds and Manchester are referring pathology lab samples to each other electronically, using WinPath lab management software from William Woodard. Leeds sends microbiology samples to Manchester and receives endocrinology requests in return. Sample requests and results are exchanged by e-mail, instead of the previous fax ...
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Check-up time
Despite renewed government emphasis on effectiveness, trusts vary enormously in their commitment to clinical audit. Rowena Barnes and Karen Hansed explain
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Trust in the community
Management support is crucial to the success of primary care groups. Heather Sim suggests how to bring everyone on board
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Don't stop praying
Rarely has mental health been more in the political eye; rarely has there been greater potential to improve mental health services.
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on the record
JANE KEEP is special projects adviser at the NHS Confederation and a fellow of Birmingham University's health services management centre. She has worked in the NHS for 18 years, including in acute units in Oxford and Bristol and at a nurse education college in Birmingham.
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Lore on audit
There's much talk about the value of clinical audit - in theory. Now a survey of trusts offers an overview of the real costs and benefits of their clinical audit departments. Rowena Barnes and Karen Hansed explain