Care notes
Jacki Scuffle, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust
"Information systems in the NHS tend to reflect working practices of their time, and therefore legacy systems concentrated mainly on administrative activities, gathering data on spells, events and attendance, for export to financial systems and NHS Central Returns. However, there are now real benefits in clinicians taking advantage of technology to improve the level and quality of information available to them about their patients. The widespread use of computers amongst clinical teams requires enormous investment, not only in the supply and installation of equipment and a suitable network, but also in the training of clinical staff to become computer competent, and in the change management issues around transparency and information sharing."
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
"Journal Scan is the clinician's guide to the latest clinical research findings in the American Journal of Psychiatry, The Lancet, Archives of General Psychiatry, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Short summaries of feature articles include links to the article abstracts and full text when available." "med"
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A US Department of Health and Human Services report (in Adobe Acrobat format), available through the Open Minds web site - "This document presents the findings of the Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) for the State of Wisconsin. The CFSR assesses State child welfare agency performance with regard to seven child welfare outcomes in the areas of safety, permanency, and wellbeing and seven systemic factors pertaining to child welfare agency operations..."
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A report, in Adobe Acrobat format, on the Campaign for the Mind of America - "The goal of the Campaign for the Mind of America state pilot initiative has been to create and implement a political initiative to raise the awareness of mental illness, affect policies that support access to early intervention, treatment and services, and enhance the hope of recovery."
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Item in the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report reviewing press reactions to the Supreme Court decision last week - "Several newspaper editorials recently examined the unanimous Supreme Court decision last week that patients cannot file suit against HMOs in state court when they experience injuries as a result of administrative decisions related to treatment. In the case, which involved a 1997 Texas law, two state residents separately filed suit in state court against their HMOs, Aetna and Cigna, over allegations that the companies made decisions related to treatment that resulted in injuries. However, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 preempts state laws that allow patients to file such lawsuits..."
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