Finland establishes industry e-health centre
The Finnish health and welfare sector has established a strategic expertise centre (T&H SHOK) focused on improving health and well-being using technology. The new centre will be led by a limited company jointly established by 29 Finnish firms, including IT services firm Tieto. The new centre is intended to improve the quality and efficiency of […]
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UK telehealth trials missing minorities
Concerns have been raised that the UK’s biggest ever trial of telehealth technologies is excluding non-English speaking people, despite the promises of social inclusion. A conference this week heard that non-English speakers and people without phones are often unable to benefit from the large-scale pilots now being developed. The Department of Health’s Whole System Demonstrator […]
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European hospitals share real-time videos
Hospitals in Norway, Italy and Spain have been linked together using an advanced video conferencing system enabling them to share real-time images of surgery for training and diagnosis. The systems were linked as part of a demonstration at the Terena Networking Conference in Malaga this week, intended to show how similar telemedicine systems could improve […]
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Burnham wants ‘health service fit for the digital age’
New health secretary Andy Burnham has said that despite the NHS’ coming financial problems, he still wants to see a health service fit for the digital age. Speaking at the NHS Confederation conference in Liverpool this morning, Burnham insisted that the NHS still had space to focus on reshaping its services focus on quality and […]
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Confed: future ‘unprecedentedly difficult’
The NHS Confederation has warned that the health service is facing a £15 billion shortfall from 2010-11 and changed ways of working will be needed to cope.
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Apprentice sells ad screens to NHS
The winner of the BBC business entertainment series The Apprentice will work for a business selling digital signs to GP practices and other NHS bodies. Yasmina Siadatan has been given a £100,000 job with Sir Alan Sugar’s Amscreen Health Care business. Siadatan beat off competition from 15 other competitors in the award-winning business show to […]
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IC boss sets out quality programmes
The chief executive of the Information Centre has claimed that the UK has the potential to have the best technology and information systems in the world “if we continue to stick with it.” He pledged to deliver systems to help achieve this within the next 12-18 months. Exactly one year on from the final report […]
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Map of Medicine use cuts poor referrals
Use of Map of Medicine in primary care has led to a significant reduction in inadequate referrals from GPs, according to a new study.
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Wireless days
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Hospital NHS Trust won the best use of wireless healthcare category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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Best Use of wireless healthcare
The best use of wireless healthcare category was won by Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust. The runners up were a wi-fi based equipment tracking project in Scotland and the iWard at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London.
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