The iPhone’s connected to the wrist bone
Anatomy is the latest discipline to embrace the iPhone, with a new app developed at Warwick University offering medical students bite-sized master classes on screen.
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Dashboard cuts A&E use in Bolton
A clinical dashboard used to analyse urgent care is helping Bolton health services to reduce A&E visits and non-elective admissions to hospital.
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iPhone works for CTC reading
iDevices had a profile at the European Congress of Radilogy in Vienna, but Italian researchers have found some issues with reading images on the smaller screens.
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Ex-Kable MD joins E-Health Media board
Mark Hudson, former managing director of Kable Ltd, has joined the board of E-Health Media Ltd, publishers of E-Health Insider, the UK’s leading source of news on healthcare information technology.
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GP leader names his NHS savings
Parts of NHS Direct, the Choose and Book service and the current ‘consent to view’ model of the Summary Care Record should all be reviewed to save money in the financial crisis, the BMA’s GP leader, Dr Laurence Buckman, said today. With NHS trusts under pressure to achieve efficiency savings of up to £20 billion […]
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Derby City leads on breast imaging
Only one of England’s 82 local breast screening programmes is fully integrated with its local PACS – but other sites are making progress, UKRC 2010 heard this week.
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Birmingham PICS CSE as partner
Birmingham Systems PICS (Prescribing Information and Communications System), developed by staff at the city’s University Hospitals, is now available to other healthcare providers following an implementation partnership agreement with CSE Healthcare Systems. The system, which was on show at the Informatics Congress 2010 in Birmingham last week, not only provides an electronic prescribing and medicines […]
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CSE seeks acute trust partner
CSE Healthcare systems, suppliers of the RiO care records system for community, mental health and child health services, is looking for an NHS acute trust partner to take its new product, Oceano.
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GE wins Wales image sharing contract
Hospitals in south-east Wales are to become early adopters of a new system developed with GE Healthcare that will allow them to share radiology images easily by joining up existing PACS. The PACS image sharing early-adopter is scheduled to begin in summer 2010 and run for six months. The work has been agreed under a […]
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Spine could be engineered for XDS-I
Engineering the NHS Spine to support an XDS-I based solution for medical image sharing is “possible, but reasonably hard”, BT technologists have concluded.
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