Tech industry concerned about NICE appraisal cuts
The Association for British Healthcare Industries (ABHI) has expressed concern that the National Institute for Clinical Excellence’s reduction in the number of its appraisal committees will result in patients "missing out" on new technology. The ABHI, a trade association that represents several computer hardware and software suppliers to the NHS as well as medical […]
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A wristband that checks the right drug? Brilliant
A student at Brunel University has won an industry prize for designing a hospital wristband, called ‘Brilliant’, that can check the dose and type of drugs being administered to patients. The wristband (right), designed by Claire Dunne, who studied industrial design and technology at Brunel, is worn by the patient and contains a touch memory sensor to […]
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Tag team care
Colin Jervis of Kinetic Consulting examines some of the innovative ways that RFID tags are being used in patient care and health administration.
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NICE backs computerised cognitive behaviour therapy
GPs across England are set to gain access to computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (CCBT) as an option for treating mild to moderate depression, following the latest recommendations from updated guidance from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). In provisional guidance NICE has recommended three separate CCBT programmes – Beating the Blues, Cope and Overcoming […]
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Version One updates document imaging with OCR
Version One has announced a new version of its document imaging software used by a number of NHS trusts that allows invoice and purchase order data to be automatically scanned by optical character recognition (OCR). The DbArchive system, which was announced on Thursday at a briefing at the House of Commons, also features image conversion […]
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Nursing IT study to look at local systems
The Department of Health has funded a £250,000, two-year study into how nurses use IT when making clinical decisions and the level of training and information available to them when using the systems. The study, which will be undertaken in collaboration between York, Southampton and Loughborough universities, will concentrate on individual specialised local systems in […]
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Decision support software review planned by NICE
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been asked by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to carry out a review of clinical decision support software. A spokesperson for NICE confirmed to E-Health Insider that a review was in the early stages of planning and development and that the NPfIT requested the review take […]
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IT key to patient care, says NeLH director
The founding director of the National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH), Dr Muir Gray, has said that the National Programme for IT is essential for making information available where it is needed and that “knowledge is the enemy of disease". “The care records service will be central,” Dr Gray told E-Health Insider. “It’s essentially completely […]
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A few billion between friends?
After a week of headlines about implementation costs for the NHS IT modernisation programme E-Health Insider takes a rain check on understanding of this key issue.
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Electronic hospital prescribing brought forward to 2006
Health Minister Lord Warner is to fast-track the introduction of electronic hospital prescribing in response to the recent report by National Cancer Director, Professor Mike Richards. Professor Richards’ report stated that cancer drugs recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) are often unavailable in certain areas of the UK, and blames lack of […]
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