Computer games to promote healthy living
Humana Europe, a provider of integrated commissioning services and support to NHS PCTs, are working on a new initiative to use electronic games to change the way people live their lives. Development of prototypes are underway at the company’s US headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky and include developing game technology aimed at improving the coordination and […]
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NHS Breast Screening Programme consolidates systems
The NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) has replaced four different systems it previously used with a single National Breast Screening System (NBSS). Benefits of the new system include making it easier for NHS staff to making and change appointments and clinicians are able to enter data directly using the software. The new system, provided by […]
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Anoto launches digital pen and paper
Anoto Group, specialist in digital pen and paper technology has launched a new software package called Anoto Forms Solution, designed specifically for the European health market. The Norwegian specialist has designed the bundle to electronically capture and transmit data entered into paper based forms, using digital pens. Anoto’s VP for sales and marketing, Ebba Asly […]
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UK Biobank begins recruiting using NHS data
UK Biobank, the medical research charity-backed DNA database, has begun using demographic data supplied by the NHS to begin recruiting half a million individuals to participate in the long-term research project. The Department of Health is helping the charity to invite the right people by using electronic NHS records to generate personalised invitations. UK Biobank […]
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New videos online for youths to quit smoking
QUIT, the charity that saves lives by helping smokers to stop, has launched two new videos on its ‘quit because’ website, designed to help youths stop smoking. The videos, “Sexiness In A Stick” and “The Ventriloquist” have been launched to co-incide with the rise in the minimum legal age for buying tobacco from 1 October […]
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MSoft showcases blood tracking on Second Life
One of the many landscapes residents can travel in and seek medical assistance Msoft, the electronic blood tracking specialist, has begun showcasing its technology on Second Life, the virtual online society shaped entirely by users, where they can live a parallel life. The company partnered with IBM and Linden Research to showcase its electronic blood […]
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Siemens signs major contract for electronic patient records
In one of the largest European private electronic patient record (EPR) deals to date Siemens and German private hospital group Rhoen Klinikum AG have agreed to implement up to one million web-based EPRs per year for the customers of Rhoen’s medical facilities. The whole project covers at least 46 Rhoen hospitals as well as a […]
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ASCC ‘symbol’ of return to local procurement
Healthcare software vendor, Ascribe, says the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) framework catalogue, designed to expand the range of healthcare IT suppliers to England’s NHS has become a ‘symbol’ of the return to local procurement of IT. A bullish assessment of the Bolton-based company’s prospects accompanied financial results showing annual sales up 55%, rising […]
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Celebrity’s details illicitly viewed by NHS staff
Reports that the records of a celebrity were illicitly viewed by over 50 members of staff at an NHS hospital look set to further fan fears about the confidentiality of patient records in the NHS Care Records Service now under development. Ironically, the incident was cited in board papers for North Tees Primary Care Trust only […]
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Heart of England pilot community access to maternity records
Community midwives from the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are to begin using their EuroKing E3 maternity information system outside of the hospital in a bid to reduce the high perinatal mortality rate in the region. The pilot will go live at the end of this month. All community midwives will be able to […]
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