OpenClinical Newsletter, 17 November 2005

Features

Series of nine World View Reports commissioned by NHS Connecting for Health, on IT in healthcare by Prof. Denis J. Protti

UK report from the National Audit Office reviewing patient safety and medical errors in the NHS : A Safer Place for Patients: Learning to improve patient safety (November 2005)

Background

Deployment of electronic medical records : focusing on national programmes and strategies

National information technology programmes for healthcare : Addition of summaries of Baltic eHealth, Belgium (be-health), Czech Republic, Finland (FinWell), Hungary, Norway (S@mspill 2007), Sweden (Carelink), Bahrain, Hong Kong, South Korea

Finland : FinnWell: 5 year technology development programme

Hungary : eHealth Program

Clinical — applications for handhelds

Diabetes : American Diabetes Association Standards of Care for Palm OS

Commercial — suppliers

Global Health : Integrated patient and clinical information systems

Expanded listings of commercial suppliers of clinical knowledge management and e-Health products.

Public - e-health applications

PQL : Pure Quality Life — stress monitoring and management

Di@bcarnet : Aide aux Jeunes Diabetiques — online diary for managing diabetes in young French patients

Cerner online diabetes tool for children in the USA with type 1 diabetes

Richard Thomson
Editor, OpenClinical
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