Heart check-ups by phone offered over Christmas
Over 100 GP practices in the North West of England will be offering patients heart check-ups over the phone during the Christmas holiday period. People living in Greater Manchester who experience cardiac symptoms over the holiday season will be able to go along to their local practice or walk-in centre and be tested on the […]
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Commission calls for better use of information
High-quality information about patients’ care should be used better to measure how well providers are performing, the Healthcare Commission has recommended to the government in its State of Healthcare 2007 report. The recommendation is one of six made in the commission’s annual independent report presented to parliament regarding the state of healthcare in England and […]
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ExpreSSO promises faster route to single sign-on
Healthcare access and identity management specialists, Sentillion, today launched a ‘plug and go’ single sign-on (SSO) solution called ExpreSSO. Sentillion bills ExpreSSO as offering fast access to a remedy for multiple sign-ons. Healthcare staff frequently complain about having to memorise multiple passwords to access different applications within their hospital system. Resetting forgotten passwords can be […]
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MPs say EPRs essential but delivery in doubt
Electronic patient record systems are vital to the future of healthcare in England, but there remain big questions and concerns…
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Lewisham cuts missed appointments with SMS
Lewisham PCT has reduced the number of missed appointments in 16 practices by 27% by using text message appointment reminders from the iPlato Patient Care Messaging software. The PCT which first started using iPlato last July now has 43% of its patients signed up to use the service. The PCT attributes the fall in missed […]
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Shared records aid cuts in outpatient visits
Electronic consultations by secondary care clinicians with access to shared care records can save up to 70% of outpatient appointments, a conference heard this week. Dr Richard Pope, consultant diabetologist and medical director at Airedale NHS Trust, told a conference run by primary care IT supplier TPP that e-consultations had the potential to transform care, […]
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Central Surrey use telemedicine to tackle COPD
Central Surrey Health NHS Trust have shown that using telemedicine as support for treating patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) can bring benefits to both patients and nurses by allowing close, accurate and easy monitoring, potentially leading to earlier discharges. Speaking at the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate, Julia Davey, community respiratory nurse specialist […]
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2006 – a curate’s egg for Connecting for Health
E-Health Insider cuts through the statistics to offer a snapshot of progress on ongoing efforts to digitise the NHS in England. Whatever happened to the NHS Care Record Service? 2006 may well be seen as the year Connecting for Health (CfH) and its prime contractors failed to deliver on their promise of next generation integrated […]
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Telehealth innovations unveiled at conference
Partners Telemedicine, a US based telecare provider, have told a conference that patients should be encouraged to use ‘self care’ telehealth products. Showcasing some of their products currently in the research and development stages in the US, Dr Joseph Kvedar, director at Partners Telemedicine, said: “The number of patients suffering from chronic illnesses is growing […]
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NHS Supply Chain uses voice to monitor stock
NHS Supply Chain, the privatised NHS logistics service now run by DHL, has signed a deal with voice recognition specialists VoiteQ for a voice picking system so that staff can use their voices to confirm stock movements through wearable computers. NHS Supply Chain has installed the Vocollect Voice system in its Alfreton distribution centre. Staff now […]
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