Million tune in for Twitter surgery
Channel Four has run a series of live surgery operations where viewers could directly question the surgeon live via microblogging site Twitter.
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Orange and Alcatel partner on e-health
French telecomm giants Orange and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a cooperation agreement to develop services for e-health and enhanced assisted living.
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Legal advice on SCR and Spine
GPs have been given medico-legal advice about the implications of using the Summary Care Record and uploading information to the Spine. A series of more than 40 frequently asked questions prepared by NHS Connecting for Health and the Medical Protection Society have been published on the CfH website. Dr Stephanie Bown, MPS director of policy and […]
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Walsall first with Horizon Visibility
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the UK to go-live with McKesson’s new Horizon Enterprise Visibility patient monitoring system.
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2009 Baltic e-health conference announced
The third Baltic Conference on e-health will take place in Hamburg on September 16, 2009, and this year focus on cross-border care. The conference, to be hosted in the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, will focus primarily on Cross-Border Healthcare, optimisation of clinical and business processes and telemedicine. The event aims to provide a cross sector […]
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Social media may ‘nudge’ users to health
A new research project has been launched using mobile phones to assess whether people can be ‘nudged’ into leading healthier lifestyles. The £1m ‘Charm’ Project will use mobile technology to measure how active participants are and then compare them to their peers. The project will include looking at how friends influence each other using facebook. […]
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Agfa Healthcare integrates Oasis
Agfa Healthcare, part of Agfa-Gaveart, has signed an agreement to integrate Oasis workstation software from Segami Corporation into the workflow of its latest Impax PACS system. The new software is said to enable physicians to review, process and report studies, helping to streamline patient care in nuclear medicine by providing a single system that automates […]
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NHS IC does deal with SAS
The NHS Information Centre has done a partnership deal with SAS for a standardised data management system and unique business analytics platform. The NHS IC says the deal will allow it to integrate, clean, manage and analyse information held on disparate systems more efficiently. It should also enable it to automate the way information is […]
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French primaries ban mobiles
Mobile phones are to be banned from French primary schools, under new government measures to reduce the health risk to children. The new measures will also require companies to provide text-only hand sets and phones that will only work when connected to headsets to limit the danger of electromagnetic radiation. At present, French schools ban […]
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Consent back on LMCs’ agenda
Grassroots GPs are to return to the debate for an opt-in approach to the transfer of patient identifiable data and argue that implied consent is insufficient for the release of information on named patients. The outcome of the debate at next month’s national Local Medical Committees’ conference will be a sign of the current feeling […]
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