Swedish centre mines drug reaction data
A Swedish monitoring centre is using data mining techniques to help identify adverse drug reactions based on Yellow Card patient records. The Yellow Card is the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) scheme, which has been used for over 40 years to collect information on suspected side effects from all types of medicines. […]
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Oxford deploy new electronic discharge system
Around 4000 staff at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust are using a new Immediate Discharge Document (e-IDD) software package from CSW to enable hospital-wide collaboration when each inpatient is discharged. The busy hospital currently has approximately 521,000 outpatient appointments every year and wanted a way of enabling its ward-based doctors and pharmacists to work together […]
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iSoft install laboratory system in Maltese hospital
iSoft has successfully installed i.Laboratory in the Mater Dei hospital, Malta, five months after signing a contract to implement the system. Mater Dei’s 150 laboratory scientists conduct 4.5m tests each year for healthcare professionals throughout Malta. The hospital used to record laboratory information manually, before the Maltese government decided to move the electronic service to […]
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Swindells calls for stronger use of information
Departing CIO at the Department of Health, Matthew Swindells, has stressed the importance of the NHS using information to make the service better. In the opening speech at the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate today, Swindells stressed that NHS managers must see information they produce as an asset, and not just numbers. “NHS managers must […]
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Lorenzo software almost ‘ready’ for use
Senior NHS IT staff at two of the Lorenzo pilot sites have told E-Health Insider off the record that the initial version of the software looks promising and, subject to testing, is ready for use in the English NHS. Following months of testing, senior NHS managers from two of the three initial Lorenzo sites, told […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 18.04.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 18 April 2008 featuring supplier news, acquisitions, events and awards. Supplier news Zebra patient wristbands proven MRSA-resistant Results of independent lab tests at Northland Laboratories in the US show Zebra’s patent-pending antimicrobial wristband coating effectively resists Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Type II, Type III and […]
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DxCG to host risk adjustment symposium in Germany
Predictive modelling specialist, DxCG, has announced it is hosting a two-day conference, Navigating Risk Adjustment with DxCG. The event will take place at the Berlin Marriot, Germany on 6 and 7 May and aims to provide attendees a practical insight into the workings of DxCG science. Attendees will also be taught proper utilisation of risk […]
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Choose and Book gives some patients wrong information
The Choose and Book system has been hit by a technical problem which has resulted in over 300 patients receiving wrong appointment information in the post. First noticed last Friday, the problem is still unsolved and is the reason behind Connecting for Health postponing the release of version 4 of the system, which will enable […]
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Milton Keynes council deploy Liquidlogic ICS
The children’s services division of Milton Keynes Council has gone-live with Liquidlogic’s PROTOCOL Integrated Children’s System, in order to meet new government regulations. The web-based system is accordant with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) ICS compliance Phase 1B, ensuring that the council’s 250 care practitioners are recording all mandatory information on children […]
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Hackers take puff out of anti-smoking ban sites
Two anti-smoking ban websites were redirected to the NHS Smokefree website over the weekend, after hackers changed the domain name settings to the give-up smoking website. Lobby groups Freedom2Choose and Forces International, were both hit by a Denial of Service (DNS) poisoning attack, resulting in UK users being shown the NHS Smokefree homepage, instead of […]
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