London NHS paper reveals plans to share patient data
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Social services and ContactPoint included A document produced for London NHS reveals plans for extensive sharing of personal data between the NHS, social services, education and the police. Obtained by William Heath's Ideal Government blog, it says that the "Health and Social Care Integration Project" should fit with "known and future national developments... e.g. ContactPoint for Children, the Common Assessment Framework for Children, the Care Programme Approach, the Single Assessment Process for Older People, the Proposed Common Assessment Framework for Adults and its link with the NHS Connecting for Health National e-SAP Project.â¦
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Hospitals are being told to standardise patients' wristbands to cut out errors in care.
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By MARTHA McKAY, STAFF WRITER  Ever worry about being so sick that you need a doctor's care while stuck in a strange city, far from your family physician and your medical records?  Now imagine handing the new doctor a tiny data storage device which she then plugs into a PC.
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Starts consultation on not screwing up The NHS has published a consultation document on the use of a national computer system to manage recruitment of junior doctors, in a bid to avoid a repeat of this year's debacle.â¦
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The global pharmaceutical industry unveiled plans on Thursday to publish more data about trials of medicines in a bid to reassure patients following recent alarms over drug safety.
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Britain is to overhaul and open up its  drug safety monitoring system, already viewed as one of the  better schemes worldwide, in the wake of recent scandals over  the side effects of some medicines.  Patients will in future be able to view anonymous data on  suspected adverse drug reactions on the Medicines and  Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency's (MHRA) Web site, Health  Minister Lord Warner said Monday.
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Doctors in Massachusetts would be able to access patients' records from any hospital or clinic in the state by computer under an initiative announced Monday.
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Digital patient records could become building blocks in a nationwide biomedical computer network for assembling and distributing up-to-the-minute studies of disease.
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Patients will be able to access an increased range of services from their local community pharmacy if pharmacy owners in England and Wales vote to adopt a new contract being published today.
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All very well, but is it worth the fuss? Doctors are still worried that patient confidentiality will be broken if treatment records are loaded onto the patient information network, the care records system, that is intended to span the country as the keystone of the late and great Â£12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT).â¦
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Plans to beef up the drive to tackle NHS fraud, have been unveiled.
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iSoft problems 'will not prevent delivery' Richard Granger, director of NHS IT has assured MPs that a core information exchange system for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will be available to UK hospitals next year.â¦
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A new website is being launched in an attempt to strengthen patient choice.
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LONDON -- The U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) has tapped IT researcher Gartner Inc. to provide market intelligence services as the health organization forges ahead with a mammoth, Â£5 billion ($9.2 billion) project to upgrade its information technology infrastructure.
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Come in number 8, it's time to cut you up A London NHS trust has got itself a new shiny IT system that it hopes will help it meet government targets on patient referral-to-treatment times.â¦
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The world's biggest drug makers unveiled  plans on Thursday to publish more data about clinical trials of  their medicines in a bid to reassure patients about their  safety.
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The system eventually will lead to all patients having an individual electronic record. Online booking will mean doctors and patients can make hospital appointments at their convenience.