EU framework for teleradiology discussed
Concerns about the legal and medical issues surrounding teleradiology will be aired at a meeting of experts gathered at the European Congress of Radiology, ECR 2010, in Vienna this week.
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Cancer detection software to be trialled
Software to help GPs to detect the early signs of cancer is to be trialled in England in 2010. The new computer-assisted cancer risk assessment announced by cancer tsar, Professor Mike Richards, will help GPs to decide whether the symptoms a patient presents with indicate the presence of cancer and whether further tests or investigations […]
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NHS Stressline to help with debt worries
A new telephone service, NHS Stressline, was launched today to help people facing the New Year worried about debt, housing and employment. NHS Stressline callers will receive practical information and advice from trained health advisers. If they are suffering from stress, anxiety or depression, they will be directed to a wider package of financial and […]
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Dr Foster names safety underperformers
The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient safety. The guide, published over the weekend, identifies patient safety as the single most important element of hospital care. For the first time, it has introduced a Patient Safety Score, awarding scores of one to […]
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Carestream Health launches latest RIS
The latest version of Carestream Health’s RIS promises significant new features, including role-based configurability to suit different users and a low glare mode to stop the RIS screen distracting radiologists as they focus on medical images. The new RIS, launched high above London at the Gherkin skyscraper, is version 11 of the system and has […]
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iSoft Synergy to start GP2GP testing
Progress on the GP2GP electronic records transfer programme remains on track with plans to start testing iSoft’s Synergy system at the end of this month, the BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group heard. If testing goes to plan on the roadmap published by NHS Connecting for Health, Synergy will join Emis’ LV and INPS’ Vision […]
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College highlights poor PACS image sharing
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor, according to a new position paper from the Royal College of Radiologists.
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PACS group demands action on NHS Number
Why isn’t it compulsory to use the NHS Number as the primary identifier for patients in England, just as the CHI number is compulsory in Scotland? NHS Connecting for Health was asked last week. The question sparked a lively debate at the Royal College of Radiologists PACS and Teleradiology group meeting in London. Colin Innes […]
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Health security defeats RAF testers
A team of RAF security experts recently spent three days attempting to penetrate the wireless networking component of a managed service covering healthcare for British Forces in Germany – and failed. The secure networking is part of a managed service, PAS 2.0, built and hosted by Dataline Software for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation […]
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Web coaching helps weight management, says study
Counselling via the phone and internet are better methods for helping people reduce their weight than simply giving them self-help literature, a Dutch study suggests. The project compared counselling via phone and e-mail with the standard practice of issuing self-help literature in approximately 1400 workers as an aid to weight management. The study, reported in […]
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