UK Nursing Portal Reaches Milestone
NMAP – The UK’s gateway to high quality Internet resources in Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health – has announced that it has served over one million pages of information since its launch in April 2001. By the end of January the figure had actually reached: 1,090,949. Over 1100 records are now included in the database, each […]
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Medicdirect Launches Doctor Direct Helpline Service
UK health information website Medicdirect which currently supplies many of the leading ISP’s and broadcasters including Freeserve, NTL, GMTV, Telewest and AOL with much of their health channel content, has launched a telephone health helpline service manned by doctors. The new service, called Doctor Direct, forms part of a total revamp of Medicdirect’s content offering, […]
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TDS Signs With E-Ceptionist for Appointment Bookings
TDS (Dermatology) Ltd, a UK-based telehealth care company, has signed a contract with E-Ceptionist and has begun using its Internet-based appointment booking service. The E-Ceptionist system allows tds’ users to book dermatology appointments and manage the e-health process between the general practitioners, nurses, dermatology consultant and patients in Britain, helping to reduce the waiting period […]
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European Commission Proposes Health ID Card
The European Union has unveiled proposals to introduce a Europe-wide health card, which would make it easier for EU citizens to get medical treatment in all 15 member states. The European Commission wants to bring in the new electronic card by 2005. The Commission says the scheme would make it easier for people to work […]
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Community Nurses to Expose Poor IT Provision
Trusts that lag behind in providing modern IT for community nurses will be named and shamed by the nurses’ union, the Community Practitioners and Health Visitors’ Association (CPHVA) as part of its Making IT Happen campaign. A survey of local representatives is being carried out to find out how many community nurses are linked up […]
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CHI Reports Emphasise Need to Align Strategy and Operations
Three new reports by the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) provide a series of snapshots of how NHS trusts are tackling IM&T modernisation and harnessing information to support clinical governance. Common themes that emerge from the reports include: data quality problems, ensuring clinician involvement, aligning strategy and developments at the operational level, and implementation of […]
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Physicians Slow to Adopt Emerging Technology
A new report by consultants Deloitte & Touche and Fulcrum Analytics says the adoption of new technology by US family doctors is slow and will remain incremental until technology and associated applications are integrated at the point of care and deliver economic benefits. Less than a quarter of the 1,200 US physicians surveyed for the […]
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Senior NHSIA Director Resigns
Graham Folmer has resigned his position as Director of Programme and Service Delivery with the NHS Information Authority . Responsible for delivery of the NHSIA’s programmes of work, Folmer has executive responsibility for key NHSIA projects such as GP connect and NHSnet. An NHSIA spokesperson told E-Health Media that Folmer had not resigned to take […]
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Siemens to Help Build Digital Hospital
Siemens Corporation is to work with the US HealthSouth Corporation to create a groundbreaking totally integrated, all-digital and completely automated hospital. Technology will be used in every part of the new hospital to improve quality and save costs. Every patient treated in the new hospital will wear a "wellness monitor" to monitor their vital signs […]
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New Special HA Planned to Run Shared Services
A new special health authority is planned for the end of 2002 to run the NHS Shared Services Initiative, it was announced today. The initiative, which was launched in October 1999, is responsible for large scale projects which use advanced technology to provide shared, non-core services across the NHS. The aim is to run functions […]
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