Patient’s awareness of treatment choices stalls
The latest national patient choice survey shows little growth in awareness of the government’s flagship policy on choice with less than one in two patients recalling being offered a choice of hospital.
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Liverpool Women’s Hospital delivers to midwives
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is testing a remote access solution for midwives using a new “office on stick” from Nortel. The trust is giving eight community midwives their own, lightweight Dell laptops with 3G wireless datacards so they can access medical notes and capture key data from patient’s homes. They will get access to […]
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Holland aims for electronic child records
All child healthcare providers will have to introduce electronic patient records by the end of 2009. André Rouvoet, the Dutch minister for youth and family, has said all institutions and bodies dealing with the healthcare of children must be using electronic patient files by the end of 2009. The minister set out the requirement in […]
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Call for ‘rolling’ register to replace census
Data from GP patient registers could be one of a range of databases used to provide a ‘rolling’ register of the population in place of the census, according to an independent think-tank. The New Local Government Network (NLGN) has published a report, Local Counts: the future of the census which argues that £500m of money […]
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Ex-NHS IT boss Richard Granger joins KPMG
Richard Granger, the former-head of NHS Connecting for Health, has returned to the world of consulting. E-Health Insider understands that Granger will join KPMG’s Global Health Practice as a partner. KPMG’s Global Health Practice is based in Australia. Granger’s new appointment was informally announced yesterday at an e-health conference in Melbourne, Australia. KPMG has yet […]
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German hospitals count benefits of SAP
Hospitals in Germany say they expect regional e-health networks to deliver substantial cost savings of up to €2 million a year.
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Second Baltic conference on e-health
The second Baltic Conference on eHealth – organized by the Baltic Sea Forum, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, and IBM, in cooperation with the U.S. Commercial Service – will take place on September 26, 2008 (Hamburg, Germany) . The conference includes a range of presentations and workshops, and will run alongside and an exhibition of […]
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Swindon takes telehealth to mainstream
Swindon PCT has mainstreamed its telehealth service, the fourth to do so in the last six months. The PCT is to move from 11 monitors to 50 after a successful pilot project showed that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who used telehealth monitoring had one fewer hospital admissions over six months. Jan Tretheway, deputy […]
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Pacsgear establishes European office
Pacsgear Inc. a US provider of document and multimedia connectivity solutions for hospitals and healthcare facilities has opened a European office in Munich, Germany. The company specializes in software for medical image management (PACS) and electronic health record (EHR) systems. Over 600 hospitals worldwide use Pacsgear software. Pacsgear software enables clinicians, technologists and administrators can […]
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Vitalog opens new research unit
Vitalog has opened a new unit to focus on European research activities and projects. The Brussels-based company, which specialises in IT-enabled health promotion and support programmes, says the new unit will participate in research on subjects such as the determinants of health, lifestyle, nutrition, e-health, education and e-inclusion. “Medical research shows that the most efficacious […]
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