ElderGames targets silver surfers
European trials of an interactive game platform, resembling a vintage video game table, specifically designed for the elderly have completed their first phase. The new video game table looks like a small dining table with an embedded flat panel display, around which players sit and play a series of games with one another. The suite […]
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CAF demonstrator details unveiled
The Department of Health has published an overview of the work being undertaken by the nine sites chosen as demonstrators for the Common Assessment Framework. The nine successful sites were announced in February. Each partnership is led by local adult social services and involves a range of acute and community health services and IT suppliers. […]
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Cerner to create 40 jobs in Ireland
US health software firm Cerner has announced it is to create up to 40 new technology support jobs in Ireland. The jobs will be created as part of a new multi-lingual software support operation, focused on the European market. The new service could create up to 40 jobs by the end of 2009, with the […]
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NHS told to secure patient data
The Information Commissioner has written to the permanent secretary of the Department of Health demanding immediate improvements to the lax treatment of personal data within the NHS. The demand for urgent action by Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas, comes in the wake of a string of recent incidents where the institute has been forced to take […]
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Patients will be able to delete their SCR
Patients will be allowed to request that their Summary Care Record is deleted after its creation, the Department of Health has agreed. The decision is a reversal of the DH’s previous policy, which was that patients would not able to delete their record once an SCR had been created for them, although it would remain […]
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Summary Care Record use jumps in Bolton
Use of the Summary Care Record by the out-of-hours service in Bolton has risen from 200 accesses a month to 200 accesses a week following the introduction of an integrated ‘SCR’ system from Adastra.
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Carestream wins Belgium PACS contracts
Carestream Health has won three contracts for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) for mammography images in the French-speaking region of Belgium. The three PACS deals cover: a regional programme for mammography screening; mobile mammography screening; and screening in a private radiology clinic. The three deals will all support the regional Communauté Française mammography screening […]
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St Helens gets scan-on-demand EPR
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has begun roll-out of a electronic patient record based on a scan-on-demand document management system. The new system allows relevant patient records to be scanned a few days before a patient attends an appointment. The aim is to make latest patient information available to authorised clinicians and […]
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Google says user data aids flu detection
Google’s co-founder Larry Page has said that the European Commission’s demand for user data to be deleted after six months would prevent the site from being able to plot and predict potential pandemics.
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