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Stanford switches med students to iPads
Medicine students starting at Stanford University School of Medicine will this year be given an iPad as part of a trial programme in integrate the mobile device into medical education.
IBM and Aetna take analytics into cloud
IBM and US health-insurance giant Aetna have partnered on a cloud-based computing health data analytics service that analyses patient data stored in electronic medical records and administrative systems.
Liverpool tracks blood with MSoft
The Royal Liverpool and Broad Green University Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with a bespoke blood tracking system from MSoft.
French health record live by December
The delayed French electronic health record, Dossier Medical Personnel, will be launched by the end of the year, the agency responsible for the programme has said.

Patient record errors caused by ‘lack of integration’, finds report
Lack of integration between the NHS App and other health data sources has contributed to

AI project aims to reduce disability caused by strokes
A research project from the University of Exeter is using AI to personalise stroke care

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing
Our coffee time briefing covers a two-year contract extension for Hitachi and a pilot of

NHS Trust raises concerns over digital workforce shortage
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals has raised concerns that its digital team is “poorly

NICE recommends AI skin cancer detection system for NHS use
Skin Analytics’ AI system that detects potential skin cancer has been conditionally recommended by NICE