German insurer AOK requires doctors to digitise
The AOK Baden-Württemberg, a regional German health insurance company with three million members, has signed a direct primary care contract with up to 5,000 doctors in the state of Baden-Württemberg that requires them to digitise. Doctors can only take part in the contract online, which replaces the traditional collective doctor contracts that have existed in […]
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Records of 38,000 Isle of Wight patients lost
An encrypted back-up tape containing the medical records of over 38,000 patients from the Isle of Wight PCT has gone missing in the post. The tape contains medical records of 38,650 current and past patients of the Sandown Health Centre from July 1996 onward, and went missing somewhere between GP systems provider INPS and the […]
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Over a million patients seen without records
A poll of NHS acute trusts indicates over 1.2m outpatients in England are seen each year without the clinician having access to a patient’s records. Health Service Journal magazine surveyed 49 NHS trusts and found that in the last year, around 54,000 outpatient appointments took place without the use of medical records. Of the 49 […]
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Web 2.0 revolution underway in healthcare
Internet developments that brought us sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia are now set to revolutionise healthcare.
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Evaware launches new telehealth platform
Software developer, Evaware has launched a new telehealth device, which wirelessly connects with its Project E-vita web-based electronic patient record, enabling clinicians to remotely monitor the vital signs of their home-based patients. The telehealth device uses Bluetooth technology to link with the EPR and set clinical thresholds to monitor. If these thresholds are […]
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Madrid’s iSoft incident reporting wins prize
iSoft Spain’s incident reporting system due to be rolled out to seven Madrid hospitals has been awarded the prestigious Spanish “Professor Barea” prize. The iSoft developed and installed Incidences Management System (IMS) is set to be completed early next month as part of a €300,000 project to ensure all incidents in the hospitals are reported. […]
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Dudley use Ardentia to hit 18 week milestone
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS expects to reach the government’s 18 week referral-to-treatment target six months early partly thanks to use of software to track patient pathways. The trust has already met the national March targets of 90% for non-admitted patients and 85% for admitted patients to be treated within a maximum of 18 weeks […]
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Fraunhofer study backs German smartcard plans
Germany’s health smartcard project uses up-to-date technology and is suitable to guarantee both data security and accessibility. This is the key message of a new study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS). The Fraunhofer scientists did their analysis for the working group 7 of the National IT Summit, a joint effort […]
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TPP to add Numed Capture to SystmOne
Primary care system supplier TPP has announced plans to integrate an image capture device into its software SystmOne. TPP and Numed, suppliers of diagnostic and patient monitoring devices, integrated Numed’s Biolog 3000i ECG device into SystmOne earlier this year and now plans to add Numed Capture. Numed Capture is a specially designed auto-focus camera with […]
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German universities to get access to BMJ
The British Medical Journal Group has signed a three year nationwide licensing agreement with the Bavarian State Library on behalf of the German research foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG,) to provide BMJ Journals’ content to universities and other publicly financed research institutions across Germany. The deal will mean that 124 universities, medical schools, research institutes and […]
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