Nurses use laptops for home visits in Alston
Community nurses in the small town of Alston, Cumbria will be able to visit housebound patients and keep track of their treatments after they were given broadband-enabled laptops as part of a Department of Health social enterprise pathfinder project. Alston Healthcare, was one of the DH’s 26 social enterprise pathfinder projects set up last year, […]
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Trust business continuity solution launched
A business continuity solution to help trusts ensure that critical management reports are not interrupted by migrations from legacy systems to new NHS systems has been launched by data management specialist, Stalis. According to the company, trusts have found that business continuity is a risk as they change systems in the move towards the new […]
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PDA software lets nursing assistants review drugs
Providing mobile drug management tools and web-based training on drugs management to nursing assistants can help cut prescribing problems among the elderly, according to a new Swedish pilot presented in Austria yesterday. The pilot was based on providing community nursing assistants with PDAs carrying mobile drug management software, provided by Pharmtech, that links in real […]
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HealthVault for Europe? Not just yet
One of Microsoft’s senior managers for healthcare has told E-Health Europe that the company would like to bring a version of its new HealthVault personal health record (PHR) to Europe – though it has no immediate plans to do so. The US software giant launched its HealthVault personal health record in the US on 9 […]
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Summary Care Record launched in Bolton
The first 48,500 summaries of patient records have been uploaded to the NHS Spine and out-of-hours staff in the Bolton pilot area will start using them over the next few weeks.
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Clinical process improvement drives EMR use
The need to improve clinical processes and workflow efficiency in healthcare is driving more healthcare organisations to look positively at electronic medical records, a new survey has found. In a survey of 819 users of electronic medical records (EMRs), the US Medical Records Institute found that almost half of healthcare organisations were driven to agreeing […]
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Microsoft to launch EMEA Health User Group
Microsoft is to partner with the US Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to launch an interactive Health User Group for Europe Middle East and Africa. The EMEA HUG will follow Microsoft’s US HUG which has been successfully running for many years and now counts 4,200 members, including 28 corporate members. Elizabeth Bielby, Microsoft’s […]
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Scottish pharmacies want emergency records access
Community Pharmacy Scotland, representing the owners of Scotland’s 1200 chemists, has made appropriate access to the Scottish Emergency Care Summary (ECS) part of its manifesto pledges. The organisation has called on the Scottish government to allow community pharmacists to obtain access to the record, when appropriate, as part of their latest manifesto document which lays […]
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Chairman reveals his iSoft low point
iSoft chairman, John Weston, has revealed he reached the lowest point in his tenure at the healthcare software company when apparent accounting irregularities came to light. In an interview with the Financial Times, Weston recalls his personal nadir in the iSoft saga. In July 2006 he was just six weeks into the job when newly-appointed […]
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Warning on health systems’ vulnerabilities
Commercial electronic health record systems are vulnerable to exploitation given existing industry development and disclosure practices, according to a study by the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program. Founded in May, 2006, the eHealth Vulnerability Reporting Program (eHVRP) is a collaborative of healthcare industry organisations, technology companies and security professionals. eHVRP’s mandate is to establish approaches and […]
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