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Doctors Losing Enthusiasm For NPfIT
News The survey, in which pollster Medix received responses from 900 doctors over a week in late January 2005, shows that fewer are ready to get excited over NPfIT than in its previous survey of July 2004.
[February 8, 2005, 16:35]
Doctors Losing Faith In NHS IT
News The latest Medix survey shows that doctors' support for the NHS's National Programme for IT is falling, despite a general enthusiasm for new IT. Doctors' support for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is waning and they are becoming increasingly...
[November 26, 2007, 15:08]
Doctors Lose Faith In NHS IT Project
News A new survey shows that doctors' enthusiasm for England's NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is continuing to decline. The survey, compiled by Medix and released on 20 November, 2006, shows that only 25 percent of GPs and 41 percent of other...
[November 22, 2006, 8:57]
Doctors Lose Faith In NHS IT Programme
Talkback I'm an IT engineer looking after GP networks and I am of the opinion that doctors will have many more problems until the government sort out the management structure within its trusts IT departments. If managers actually listen to the guys out in...
[January 10, 2006, 13:24]
Doctors Give NHS IT A Cautious Welcome
News Two-thirds of UK doctors are confident that the National Programme for IT will make a positive change to the NHS, a survey has found. The poll of more than 3,000 medical professionals was carried out for The Times by the medical website Doctors.net...
[February 20, 2007, 11:48]
Doctors Lose Faith In NHS IT Programme
News Most doctors have lost all confidence in the Government's ability to deliver real improvements in healthcare through its controversial NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) which is beset with "distrust and cynicism", according to the results of a...
[January 10, 2006, 10:35]
Doctors May Be Fined For Losing Data
News Doctors who lose confidential patient information should be held accountable for the loss, according to the Information Commissioner's Office. Thomas said the proposed law would not be used to criminalise doctors for one occurence, but that it...
[November 16, 2007, 10:41]
Doctors Warn Of VR Football Injuries
News Doctors at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough are saying that virtual footballers need to take just as much care as real ones preparing for a match after treating injuries generated in a fit of soccer related passion.
[November 15, 1999, 15:22]
NHS To Email X-rays To Doctors
News The technology, known as Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS), will allow doctors to access x-ray information through their computers rather than physically transferring images from one hospital department to another.
[May 11, 2004, 11:00]
Healthcare Network Taps SumTotal Systems To Prepare For HIPAA, Use Of Software Gives Doctors And Nurses More Time To Heal Patients
White Papers No less important to Gundersen Lutheran is its desire to tailor training to fit doctors and nurses' hectic schedules. Based in La Crosse, Wis. Gundersen Lutheran is a complete healthcare network. As a federally regulated organization, Gundersen...
[July 27, 2006, 0:00]
Hospital Chain Unites Doctors, Bettering Productivity And Patient Care
White Papers This universal data-exchange solution would give doctors access to a patient's medical record. Asklepios, a private hospital chain, manages more than a hundred hospitals across Germany and the United States.
[May 6, 2008, 0:00]
Flying Doctors Bring Computer Aid To Africa
News By allowing doctors in remote medical centres to connect with specialists in the main cities such as Nairobi and Mombassa, patients can be treated in situ and avoid costly and dangerous travel on often poorly maintained roads.
[November 27, 2007, 11:01]
Doctors Losing Enthusiasm For NPfIT
Talkback What do you expect this is the medical sector, its highly contrevercial at best, can they agree on accupuncture, no - well it works. Then look at the tech boom were having, with so many standards and new technologies comming out, security at a low...
[February 8, 2005, 20:34]
Spin Doctors Create Quantum Transistor
News Canadian researchers have announced the laboratory creation of what they are calling a "spintronic transistor". According to a paper published in the American Physical Society's Physical Review Letters, physicists at Ottowa's Institute for...
[July 8, 2002, 12:48]
Spintronic Doctors Get Silicon Injection
Blog More news on spintronics, my current favourite bet for what Moore's Law does next. Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory have published a paper saying that they've demonstrated one of the more important inventions needed to make the...
[December 5, 2007, 10:29]
Doctors Boost Patient Load And Still Get Home For Dinner With Microsoft-Based System
White Papers The Michigan Knee and Shoulder Institute, of Auburn Hills, Michigan, is a leading sports-medicine practice in the region, staffed by two board-certified orthopedic surgeons. Before adopting a first generation Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system...
[May 6, 2008, 0:00]
Clalit Health Services: Doctors Diagnose Patient Problems More Accurately Through Integrated Medical Records
White Papers The Clalit Health Services group is the largest provider of medical care in Israel. Healthcare professionals working at the hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies providing services to Clalit were using information held in several legacy systems.
[August 17, 2004, 0:00]
Junior Doctor Loses Confidential Patient Data
Blog Apparently junior doctors are toting unencrypted confidential data around on USB sticks, according to an article in E-Health Insider. Around a third of junior doctors currently use universal serial bus (USB) sticks as a means of saving and storing...
[July 25, 2007, 18:10]
US Cellular Helps University Of Wisconsin Hospital Improve Communications And Patient Safety
White Papers University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin faced a problem - doctors and staff were frustrated with poor wireless communications in and around the two million square foot complex.
[January 17, 2006, 23:00]
New Top-level Domain Goes .pro
News RegistryPro is hoping doctors, lawyers and accountants will get with its .pro program. Nevertheless, RegistryPro's Gaon is optimistic that doctors and lawyers in particular will seek out .pro addresses, partly because of the authentication...
[August 8, 2003, 12:05]
