Mobile phones: the new tool to combat AIDS in Africa
Mobile phones will be used to help fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, it was announced at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. A public-private partnership between five member groups of the mobile phone industry and the US government has formed the Phones for Health initiative. Phones for Health is a $10m scheme aimed at […]
News
Survey reveals doctors’ pessimism about NPfIT
A survey of over 3000 doctors has revealed that the overwhelming majority are not optimistic that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will change the NHS – but only a small minority thought it should be abandoned at this stage. Only 9% of doctors expressed optimism about the programme’s potential to change the service and […]
News
Call to use Spine to find drug trial patients
The BioIndustry Association has expressed an interest in tapping into the NHS’s Spine database and using patient information to identify potentially willing drug test subjects. Speaking to the Scotsman, the association’s chief executive, Aisling Burnand said: “The UK has a real opportunity because the NHS’s patient records make this a unique place in the world […]
News
Accreditation win for Barts and London service desk
Barts and The London NHS Trust has become the first hospital trust in England to win Connecting for Health accreditation to provide expert IT support to NHS organisations nationally. The accreditation allows the trust to offer 24-hour Front Line Support Services for National Programme for IT (NPfIT) Applications such as the NHS Care Records Service, […]
News
100 practices to rollout patient access on the net
Patient access to medical records over the internet is to be rolled out to 100 practices. Hadfield Medical Centre in Glossop, Derbyshire, was the first GP practice to enable to a patient to view their medical record over the internet just under a year ago and since then eight other practices have joined the project. […]
News
DH embraces wireless safety technologies
A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by health minister Lord Hunt. The Department of Health believes that auto-identification and data capture (AIDC) technology has the potential to tackle mismatching errors in particular, as well as bringing other efficiencies and cost savings. Lord […]
News
Tunstall leads European telecare project
Telecare specialist, Tunstall, is co-ordinating a part EU-funded project called SOPRANO, which will design and develop new telehealth solutions for elderly people. The Service Orientated Programmable Smart Environments for Older Europeans (SOPRANO) is a €12m (£8m) research and development project aimed at developing new ways of integrating assistive technology, telecare and telehealth solutions into users’ […]
News
BMA chair says smart card policy ‘preposterous’
Connecting for Health’s policy of requiring doctors to repeatedly log-in with a smart card every time they use a computer system has been described as ‘preposterous’, by the chairman of the British Medical Association. Speaking exclusively to E-Health Insider Mr Johnson said: “The idea that we have to log in and out of each terminal […]
News
South West London trust goes live with Magic
South West London and St Georges NHS Mental Health Care Trust have implemented a new support management system called Magic in order to prepare for implementation of a new RiO system. Magic has been developed by IT service software specialists BMC Software and is described as “IT Service Support for the Midsized Business.” It is […]
News
Initiate first to achieve new HL7 compliance level
Initiate Systems, a specialist in master data management solutions has announced it has become the only vendor to have achieved Health Level 7 Version 3 (HL7 V3) for Patient Identifier Cross-reference (PIX) Manager and Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) Manager interoperability standards. It demonstrated compliance with the interoperability standards at the Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE) […]
News