NHS Manchester buys BI from Ardentia
NHS Manchester has deployed Ardentia’s data warehouse and patient level costing modules to replace in house legacy systems and support commissioning and provisioning. The data warehouse will collect information from the Secondary Uses Service, GP practices and the primary care trust’s provider arm, Manchester Community Health. Relevant staff will be given access to the data […]
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Little local difficulties with C+B
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has told MPs that local implementation issues are at the root of most complaints about Choose and Book. Bradshaw told a House of Commons debate about the electronic booking system that useage was growing, with 57% of bookings made through Choose and Book in January and more than 30,000 bookings made […]
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Germany invests €125m in ambient care
The German national ministry of research has announced a major funding program for ambient assisted living.
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Rotherham set to announce EPR contract
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is set to announce the award of a contract for a new electronic patient record system that will see it spend an estimated £30-40m over the next ten years.
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Best Practice online
The BMJ is launching an online point-of-care decision support tool that aims to provide immediate access to expert opinion, guidelines and the latest evidence. Best Practice has been built for doctors and clinicians to use as they are working with patients. It aims to deliver information in “bite-size chunks” to people in settings such as […]
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iPlato supports Southwark MMR drive
GP surgeries in Southwark Primary Care trust are using iPlato text messaging to invite patients for MMR jabs and to alert parents to recent measles outbreaks in local schools. The initiative has been launched in response to concern about the rising number of measles cases reported in Britain over the past few months. In common […]
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Nettel to ‘pursue other interests’
The chief executive of Barts and the London NHS Trust has resigned amid what is starting to look like a major shake-up of NHS management in London. The trust confirmed this morning that Julian Nettel was “leaving the trust to pursue other interests” and would leave by the end of February. Nettel was chief executive […]
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Wales to stamp out medical scrawl
Doctors and nurses in Wales are going to have to use stamps as well as their signature in a bid to combat illegible scrawled signatures on patient notes. The initiative is being introduced because some clinicians signatures are not legible. The stamp will be used along with signatures. Dr Andrew Dearden of the BMA said […]
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Demonstrators make slow progress
Around 650 people are using new assistive care technologies as part of the Whole System Demonstrator project, according to the Department of Health. The WSD project was launched last May and hopes to recruit 6,000 users to test telehealth and telecare solutions in Newham, Cornwall and Kent. The project is due to run for a […]
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Barco sells Advanced Visualization to Toshiba
Belgian medical imaging specialist Barco has announced that the company closed the divestment operation of its Advanced Visualization (AVIS) activities to Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, the AVIS group specialises in 3D clinical software, marketed worldwide under the product names ‘Voxar 3D’ and ‘Voxar 3D Enterprise’. Toshiba now owns all […]
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