QRisk2 helps to predict risk of heart attacks
Researchers have used anonymised GP records to develop a new method for assessing whether people are at risk from cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which they claim will improve national diagnosis rates and better identify those at risk among black and minority ethnic groups. QRisk2 is a new equation developed to help doctors identify those most at risk […]
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Safer surgery tool launched by WHO
The World Health Organisation has devised a new safety checklist designed to help cut the number of preventable surgical complications and deaths. Currently, the checklist is only available on paper, but its developer Professor Atul Gawande of Harvard University, told E-Health Europe, that work was underway to create an electronic version. The checklist identifies three phases of […]
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Fujitsu staff talks: 700 possible redundancies
Seven hundred staff working on the NHS Southern Programme for IT face possible redundancy, following the termination of Fujitsu’s £1.1bn contract by Connecting for Health two weeks ago. The former local service provider is to hold discussions with the 1000 members of staff working on the NHS IT contract this week, telling them their options […]
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DrThom makes the pill available online
Women can now purchase the contraceptive pill using the online medical service, DrThom without having to go to a doctor. The service will cost £29.99 for a three month supply and will only be made available to women who have taken the pill before. Patients will need to register on the DrThom website, and then […]
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Moscow laboratory group chooses iSoft system
Gemotest, a Moscow-based private laboratory group, has signed a deal with iSoft to deploy the LabCentre laboratory information system. The system is to be installed initially at Gemotest’s main laboratory in Moscow this year. At the main laboratory, 50 of the group’s 100 staff process 10,000 specimens a day. LabCentre will be integrated with 16 […]
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NHS leaders see IT as promising NHS opportunity
Over 90% of NHS leaders see IT as a promising opportunity for the NHS over the next ten years, a poll for the NHS Confederation has found. NHS Confederation surveyed over 200 senior NHS officials ahead of its conference last week, and asked them to identify threats and opportunities to the NHS. The poll found […]
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Biotronik launches cardiac telecare system
Biotronik Lumax 540 German telemedicine device specialist, Biotronik, has launched a new home monitoring device offering remote, wireless advanced patient management and providing daily protection for patients with life-threatening cardiac conditions. Biotronik’s ‘Home Monitoring’ system has been designed to enable continuous automatic daily data transmission of the patient’s cardiovascular status. Once wirelessly connected, the information […]
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Central NHS cancer research database launched
A new £4m NHS National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN), which will bring together around 22m NHS cancer records to create the largest patient-based cancer research resource in the world is to be created by the Department of Health and several cancer charities. The project, which will be overseen by the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), […]
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EHI’s news roundup 20.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 20 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news StreamOn.net launches video e-learning for healthcare Belfast company, StreamOn.net, has launched a video based e-learning site for healthcare professionals, in partnership with leading UK professional bodies The website aims to […]
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WHO calls for sharing of information in Europe
European countries should do a better job of assessing the performance of their health care systems and sharing that information with other states, World Health Organisation (WHO) officials have said, ahead of a ministerial conference next week. WHO’s regional office for Europe is holding its first ministerial conference on health systems, with the theme "health […]
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