Successful mobile working in community healthcare
This white paper from Bittium sets out the case for mobile working in community healthcare, and discusses the technical issues that need to be addressed to make projects a success.
Infrastructure
Guest column: Bitcoin technology and the NHS
Gareth Baxendale, the head of technology for the NIHR Clinical Research Network, asks: can Bitcoin’s block chain technology revolutionise electronic patient records?
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Come hell or high water: North Cumbria opens IT-ready hospital
There has been little good news to come out of flood-hit Cumbria recently. But North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust is running a new hospital with the infrastructure to support big IT plans. Tom Meek went to take a look.
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Southampton plans three-site EDM project
A Southampton hospital plans to digitise its existing patient records and replace paper processes with electronic forms using Hyland’s electronic document management system OnBase by Hyland, before closing its records library in 2017.
Infrastructure
Hunt: tech money to go on free NHS wi-fi
Free wi-fi will be available across all NHS buildings in England as part of the government’s commitment to a paperless health service by 2020, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.
Infrastructure
Laying the foundations for the digital revolution
Terry Espiner, client director – UK healthcare at Cisco Systems, talks to Digital Health editor Jon Hoeksma about why digital technologies are fundamental to NHS business.
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NHSmail 2 faces delay
Sheffield Teaching Hospital Notice Major Impact from New Patient Data access for Clinicians
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals’ ‘Transformation through Technology’ programme gives clinicians secure access to patient data in real time from any location. This video case study explains how this was achieved.
Infrastructure
Hospital stops record scanning
A Birmingham hospital trust has halted plans to scan its entire library of paper patient records.
Infrastructure
Special report: Electronic Document Management
As it moves towards paperless working by the end of the decade, the NHS will need both electronic patient record and electronic document management systems. But what, exactly, is the role of EDM? And why has uptake been relatively slow?
Infrastructure