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One Doctor's View: Electronic Medical Records Work Well
Doctors increasingly use email and electronic medical records to improve health care. In an essay in the Los Angeles Times, Rahul Parikh writes about his own experience at a Kaiser Permanente facility in Northern California where they implemented an electronic medical record system in 2006: "...notes, orders and prescriptions are clear and contiguous. There"s no waiting for paperwork. And if a patient of mine shows up in another office across town (remember, Kaiser is an integrated system -- we all share the same computer network), a doctor whom I have never met can see what I"ve written, my patient"s list of problems and what I"ve done for the patient in the past before he or she even sets foot in the room to talk to the patient. Such record systems can alert us to possible medication errors or dangerous drug interactions. They can continuously be updated to identify best practices. And they talk to patients as well, allowing them to access past-visit information and immunization records and to make appointments and send e-mails to their doctor."
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Another JDRF Partner Moves Research Forward With Collaboration Agreement For Diabetes Treatment
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation said recently that for the fourth time in 18 months, one of its biotech partners has signed a collaboration agreement with a large pharmaceutical company to move research on type 1 diabetes into the final phases of trials.
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Hospital Pharmacists Launch Pioneering Healthy Lifestyle Scheme, UK

Inpatients at Southampton"s teaching hospitals are to be offered advice on lifestyle and weight management as part of a radical new project. Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust"s pharmacy team has invented an innovative plan to tackle obesity during routine risk assessments for venous thromboembolism (VTE), better known as blood clots. All patients admitted to hospital are susceptible to VTE, which causes an estimated 25,000 preventable deaths per year in England, so safety reviews are now carried out on all inpatients. Pharmacists conduct these assessments and identify risk factors, such as obesity, that can cause fatal clots. SUHT is now developing a pilot project in collaboration with primary care services to expand the role of pharmacists, allowing them to advise patients about lifestyle and obesity management as opposed to just recording them as a VTE risk. Pharmacists will supply appropriate patients with information leaflets about the help available in the community as well as contacting their GP. If a patient shows interest in improving their health immediately, the pharmacist will offer direct consultation to set them targets and decide on the most appropriate way forward. Sharron Millen, head of clinical pharmacy at SUHT, said: "We are currently finalising plans to pilot this in the surgical pre-assessment clinic, where we believe active intervention might prevent complications during and after surgery. "Within the clinic, pharmacists will conduct VTE risk assessments for each patient, which allows them to identify those who might benefit from lifestyle support, i.e. help to lose weight, stop smoking." She added: "We hope that by supporting patients who have unhealthy lifestyles and are at high risk of VTE, we can add quality to their care and, in the longer term, reduce their risk of thrombosis and other long-term conditions." Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust


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