Airedale hospital to pilot RFID from Siemens
Airedale NHS Trust will be piloting new Radio Frequency Identification technology from Siemens Healthcare to track 100 intravenous pumps across the trust, over 30 days. The pilot will be the first time both Siemens and Airedale have used RFID technology to track assets across various buildings on the hospital site, via the hospital’s new wireless […]
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AxSys to provide Salisbury within interim clinicals
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has commissioned a new trust-wide clinical information system from AxSys Technology while waiting for delayed clinical software from the NHS IT programme. The clinical database system, which will run alongside the trust’s existing iSoft patient administration system, and is intended to provide an interim application until NHS National Programme for IT […]
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EHTEL launch report on future of telemedicine
A new report from the European Health Telematics Association has issued a report detailing a series of recommendations for achieving sustainable telemedicine services in Europe by 2020. The ”Sustainable Telemedicine: paradigms for future-proof healthcare” report presents the current achievements and best practice examples drawn from a number of ongoing projects across Europe, as well as […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 27.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 27 May 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news PromptSMS selects Tyntec For health sector SMS alerting Mobile messaging services provider TynTec has announced that it has been selected by Australian SMS gateway PromptSMS to provide high-reliability messaging […]
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First ePractice workshop declared a success
The first ePractice.eu mid-term workshop held last Monday in Brussels has been hailed a success by its organisers. A total of 82 members of the online community participated in the European Commission organised event. Several high-level experts were also in attendance and delivered key note speeches. Amongst these were David Broster and Karel De Vriendt, […]
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Imprivata secures 35 NHS SSO deals
Single-sign on specialist, Imprivata, is now working with 35 acute NHS trusts, enabling all desktop applications to be accessed using just one set of log-in details through its OneSign application. Onesign is being deployed across the NHS to enable clinicians to access vital patient information as quickly, easily and securely as possible. It ensures that […]
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Records of 38,000 Isle of Wight patients lost
An encrypted back-up tape containing the medical records of over 38,000 patients from the Isle of Wight PCT has gone missing in the post. The tape contains medical records of 38,650 current and past patients of the Sandown Health Centre from July 1996 onward, and went missing somewhere between GP systems provider INPS and the […]
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Welsh hospitals deploy Cisco wireless
Clinicians at the Princess of Wales Hospital and Neath Port Talbot Hospital, part of the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (ABM) University NHS Trust in South Wales, are now able to access information about their patients’ bedsides using a new Cisco wireless Local Area Network (LAN). Using the wireless LAN, clinicians can now access information about their […]
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ClinPhone opens new Paris office
British pharmaceutical technology specialist, ClinPhone, has opened a new office in Paris, in order to reach out to its growing French client base. ClinPhone already works with a number of large pharmaceutical clients across France and the new office is intended to provide both its current and new customers with a local point of contact. […]
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Tough new laws on data breaches
MPs have passed legislation giving the Information Commissioner the power to impose substantial fines on organisations that deliberately or recklessly commit serious breaches of the Data Protection Act.
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