My kind of thing
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust won the last EHI Award for the ‘best use of technology to share information with patients and carers’ for its myhealth@QEHB portal. Paul Curran finds out why.
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Power to the people on: Charlie Hebdo and the NHS
Paul Hodgkin wonders what the recent massacre of French cartoonists has to say to the NHS, and argues that thing is that it will need to be vigilant against new demands for its data.
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The year of the wearable
There were some eye-catching launches of wearable technology in 2014; and companies see health as a market. Sam Sachdeva looks back and forward to what may lie ahead in 2015.
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Power to the people on: the great confidentiality face-off
Confidentiality can’t just be toggled on and off, because it goes to the heart of the doctor/patient relationship. Paul Hodgkin argues modern IT systems need to reflect that.
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Another view: of support chat
Dr Neil Paul wonders if GP practices could learn from the modern support tools used by companies; and suggests that online chat could well have a role.
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Tweet talk
EHI Live visitors queued up for selfies with Dr Ranj; and then headed down to the Social Media Village to hear how they could build social media into their own health and care services. Sam Sachdeva reports.
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Power to the people: Ebola – hacking social cohesion
Paul Hodgkin wonders about the role that modern, social media tools could play in communications about Ebola; particularly when it affects the NHS.
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Another view of simple tech
GP Neil Paul is a huge fan of technology. But sometimes a simple device, with a big red button on it, is the answer…
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Power to the people: on how technology is the architect of our intimacies
The technology that we use subtly embodies the values that lie behind what we are doing. Better get those right when it comes to big, NHS IT programmes like the SCR and care.data, says Paul Hodgkin.
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Apple bites into wearables
Apple has launched its first wearable device. Sam Sachdeva asks what this could mean for the wearable tech market and for healthcare.
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