Israeli medical centre to roll out active RFID
European RFID specialist Wavetrend Technologies has signed a deal with the newly built Ashdod Medical Centre in Southern Israel, to instal active RFID ports across the building to monitor movements of patients and assets. Working in partnership with Isreali system integration company, Ardan Control Tech, Wavetrend will install an infrastructure of active RFID for asset […]
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Access to NHS care records may be widened
The Department of Health is to review extending access to the NHS Care Records Service to non-NHS staff, and bodies including private sector organisations.
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E-Health Insider award winner blazes trail for NHS
Homerton University NHS Foundation Trust won the 2007 BT e-Health Insider award for Excellence in Health Information Management.
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AOK Plus to use ICW telemedicine system
German health insurers AOK Plus has commissioned InterComponentWare to implement a telemedicine system to care for patients with serious chronic heart failure. The service will be offered to patients living in the German state of Saxony. The ICW Care and Disease Manager will be used as the basis of the system. The system has already […]
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Berkshire gets CfH help desk accreditation
HP Service Desk Berkshire Shared Services has gained Connecting for Health accreditation to enable it to handle IT-related technical problems over the two primary care trusts and 12 community hospitals it serves. The accreditation means that the group has been approved to manage incidents directly as opposed to clients having to contact the national service […]
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NHS manager suspended after losing laptop
A senior hospital manager has been suspended after a laptop computer containing the unencrypted records of over 20,000 patients was stolen from his car whilst he was on holiday. The machine was stolen on 18 June from a car belonging to a manager from Colchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The car had been parked […]
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Wales opens new health informatics lab
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, has opened a new state-of-the-art health informatics research laboratory at Swansea University, designed to help find innovative new ways of treating patients. The laboratory was officially opened by the Welsh health minister, Edwina Hart, at the Swansea University School of Medicine, last week and Informing Healthcare say it […]
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RFID risk to hospital equipment claims study
Radio frequency identification could seriously affect life-saving equipment leading to hazardous situations for hospitals, Dutch scientists have claimed. A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dutch academics and doctors found that even the most simple radio frequency identification device (RFID) such as a credit card could cause electromagnetic interference, which could […]
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Scotland commits to incremental e-health
The Scottish government has pledged consolidate its SCI Gateway and Store, and enhance its Emergency Care Summary Service.
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Darzi review stresses choice and information
Greater choice, better information and a legal duty for strategic health authorities to promote innovation are key themes of the government’s NHS next stage review.
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