National Health Service news from FierceEMR
NewsCerner implementation at UK hospital has 'gone remarkably well'
Here's something you don't see every day: an EMR success story in England's massive National Programme for IT. Implementation of a Cerner Millennium system at the Kingston Hospital National Health Read more...
UK Study: EMR mining for heart risk as effective as universal screening
Foes of big government rejoice--though this news does come from England's National Health Service. Mining of primary care EMRs to find patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease is just as Read more...
PHR usage is even lower in England than in the U.S.
The minuscule uptake of personal health records isn't just an American phenomenon. In fact, PHR usage is even lower in England. Of the 1.2 million people with PHRs--called the Summary Care Read more...
UK, Australia EMR projects take it on the chin
The EMR-related news from overseas is not so good, as a system in Australia failed twice in four days, while a leading medical informaticist in the UK offered a sobering assessment of the National Read more...
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