Can Clinical Trials Be Done on the Internet?
The Internet offers opportunities for studying some treatments quickly and effectively, according to a feasibility trial published in the British Medical Journal. There appear to be limits to the usefulness of the method explored, however. The study, conducted by rheumatology staff at the at the Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, suggested that the Internet-based approach […]
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Stirling Launches E-Learning for Nurses
Stirling University in Scotland has launched a new Internet training course targeted at former nurses looking to return to the profession. The website and e-learning modules, developed by academics at Stirling University, is designed to help tackle the nation’s nursing shortage – one of the biggest challenges facing the NHS. It is hoped that the […]
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Open Source: Tablet PCs Wrong for Doctors – Steve Garrington, CEO Torex Health
Last week hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, shared his experience of testing a Tablet PC on the wards. Steve Garrington, chief executive of Torex Health, uses our Open Source column to respond and argues the case for PDAs rather than Tablet PCs for clinicians. I found Andrew Harrison’s piece on his testing of a Tablet PC […]
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Open Source: ‘Rescue Community Nurses from IT Exile’
In the second of our new ‘Open Source’ columns Mark Reynolds, managing director of TopCall UK argues for community nurses to be urgently provided with modern IT tools to end their ‘communications exile’. According to research by Intel, Hewlett Packard and Sendmail, the mobile nursing community is one of the most ostracised of all British […]
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Online Recruitment Plan for NHS in England
Details of the long-delayed project to put NHS jobs in England online have emerged from the Department of Health (DH). A pilot electronic recruitment service is due in summer 2003 and a full-roll out is expected in late 2003 or early 2004. Sites for NHS jobs in Wales and Scotland are already up and running […]
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eMatron – the Ultimate Nursing Boss
With no role out of bounds for the IT revolution, a US healthcare technology provider has devised electronic decision support software which effectively replaces Matron. PR Decision Tools Inc. says that the software – nicknamed eMatron by its UK distributors – will be marketed as Nurse Leader Online. The idea is that hard-pressed hospitals will […]
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iSeeTV Brings Healthcare to Students
A broadband healthcare service which offers students a live consultation with a nurse outside clinic hours will be launched at the end of March at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. The new service will enable the university’s 4000 resident students to access healthcare expertise seven days a week through their dormitory room PCs using iSeeTV […]
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Texting Temps Could Help Trusts Fill Vacant Shifts
Software that enables employers to send text messages to temporary staff needed for shifts has been launched by SkillsFlow. The development is recent addition of the company’s SkillsBid module which is designed to help organisations manage temporary and shift vacancies, offering work directly to bank staff and to competing agencies.The overall aim is to help […]
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Innovative System for Enabling IT Access for Students
A London mental health trust has set up an innovative system for allowing nursing students to have access to patient records and other electronic information. Pre-registration education nurse education co-ordinator, Roger James, at South West London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust said it was the first among London mental health trusts to organise […]
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SNOMED Adds Nursing Terms
The American College of Pathologists has signed an agreement to integrate detailed nursing interventions and outcomes classifications into the College’s SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) product. Though the announcement focuses nursing concepts developed in the US it could have significance for the NHS, which is thought to be inching towards adopting SNOMED CT as […]
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