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Wales to pilot PACS integration

Informing Healthcare is planning a pilot for image sharing between picture archiving and communications systems across the country. The PACS integration
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Project develops smart clothes

Researchers in the UK have begun work on a project to develop hi-tech clothing for elderly people, with electronic devices
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Changing child health systems

A consortium of primary care and acute trusts in the south west discuss the implementation of McKesson’s Care Plus child
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Patient told no electronic record, no care

A North London Mental health trust has said that any patients who refuse to have their data entered onto electronic
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The great Communicator

A GP practice in Harrow has become the first early adopter site for HealthSpace’s Communicator tool, enabling patients and clinicians
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German doctors use iPods for PACS

Clinicians at Jung-Stilling Hospital in Germany are using an iPod Touch to access patient data and diagnostic images at the
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Bristol wristbands use GS1 coding

NHS trust improves patient safety by adopting national coding standards for its new printed wristbands.
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Webinar reveals demand for IT evidence

The Royal College of Nursing’s informatics expert has called for better evidence to convince nurses of the benefits of technology
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MHRA launches drug info debate

The UK’s medicines regulatory body has launched a consultation on the European Commission’s plans to change the rules on the
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GP Locum monkey launched

A GP has set up a national online locum service to help GPs practices and primary care organisations find locums.
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