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One short page on each term you'll meet when bringing in a digital tool. Each one starts with the same four answers: what it is, whose job it is, who usually leads, and how often it comes up.
Whose job?
- DCB0129 and DCB0160The two clinical safety standards, and how the supplier’s work feeds into yours.SupplierYour practice
- DTACThe NHS checklist suppliers fill in. You read it before you buy.Supplier
- Medical devicesWhen software counts as a medical device, and what that means for AI scribes.Supplier
- DSPTYour yearly data security check, and where new tools come into it.Your practice
- Cyber securityHow attackers get in, who locks which door, and what Cyber Essentials is.Your practiceICBSupplier
- IM1 and GP system linksHow other tools read from and write to your clinical system.Supplier
- The AI scribe registryWhat being on NHS England’s list means, and what it doesn’t.Your practice
- Large language modelsHow AI chatbots and scribes produce text, and why they sometimes make things up.Everyone
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