App allows messages from the dead
UK developers are working on a new app that allows people to record messages that can be accessed by their loved ones after they pass away.
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Walsall latest to deploy VitalPAC
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust has deployed the mobile electronic observations system VitalPAC to record vital signs of patients across its wards.
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CQC identifies more IT problems at Barts
The directors of Barts Health NHS Trust lack confidence in their own data and its staff face significant records challenges, according to Professor Sir Mike Richards, the chief inspector of hospitals.
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Bath GPs take tablets at weekends
GP practices in Bath and North East Somerset are using a mobile solution provided by Targett Business Technology to support weekend services.
Infrastructure
‘Health tourist’ info added to the Spine
Data about the surcharge status of immigrants using the NHS has been uploaded to the NHS data Spine, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has confirmed.
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CSC splits off US operations
CSC, the global technology company that markets the electronic patient record Lorenzo, has announced it is splitting into two separate businesses.
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Partnership trust to link RiO to PKB
Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust has chosen RiO for its community services, and will work with Patients Know Best on a fully integrated patient portal.
Clinical Software
Records access target hit
Nearly all GP practices in England are able to offer a variety of online services to patients, including access to a summary of their record, appointment booking, and ordering repeat prescriptions.
Digital Patient
Croydon to implement SynApps VNA
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has gone with SynApps Solutions to provide a vendor neutral archive to store data, beginning with X-ray images.
Infrastructure
Tech part of 7-day NHS – Cameron
Prime Minister David Cameron today used his first major speech since the election to push forward the Conservative Party’s plans for a seven-day NHS, indicating that this would include making use of technologies such as Skype.
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