Study reveals savings using blood tracking
A new study at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, has found that significant time and cost savings can be achieved by hospitals, by using electronic blood tracking systems such as Neoteric Technology’s BloodTrack OnDemand. The study for the American Association of Blood Banks’ Journal of Transfusion found that the time to access blood in the […]
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NPfIT spent half total planned in first three years
The £12bn NHS IT programme had spent barely half the amount it had planned to by March 2007, due to lengthy delays in the delivery of the detailed local electronic patient records at the centre of the project. By March 2007 the programme had spent a total of £2.4bn, against an original forecast spend of […]
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NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’
NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a health service based on plurality and far more locally-based decision making by clinicians and patients. Speaking at the World Healthcare Congress in Berlin on Monday Nicholson explained why the introuduction of the NHS National Programme for […]
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Conferencing technology could save NHS £121m
Annual savings of 60,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and around £121m on travel costs could be achieved if 3% of NHS trusts used standard conferencing technology, according to research by BT Conferencing and the Royal College of Physicians. The findings were revealed at a recent Royal College of Physicians conference titled ‘Climate Change and Its […]
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Charing Cross hospital installs new e-whiteboard
Emergency staff at London’s Charing Cross Hospital are using a new interactive whiteboard from SMART Technologies, which has centralised all patient records and created daily time savings of up to 20 minutes per patient. As a specialist hospital, acting as a ‘trauma centre’ for the Hammersmith and Fulham area, it wanted a solution that would […]
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Experience information deficit must be overcome
A steering group focused on harnessing the power of public opinion has found that many NHS boards do not have a systematic approach to using patient experience information, hence creating an information deficit, which must be overcome. In a research report, developed by senior health officials form the NHS and professional medical bodies, the steering […]
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Eighty trusts sign up to ‘scan and save’
The GS1 asset tracking technology in use. Radio Frequency Identification and barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that almost eighty NHS trusts across England have signed up for to its ‘scan and save’ initiative for automatically tracking and tracing sterile surgical instruments. The wireless wristband and barcode-based technologies allows hospitals to trace the complete life […]
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NHS leading public sector on shared services
A new study by the National Audit Office has praised the NHS for being at the forefront of adopting shared services in the public sector, even though only a fifth of NHS trusts have widely adopted the financial concept. The Cabinet Office is currently pushing for the adoption of shared services across government to deliver […]
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Lanarkshire’s mobile single assessment commended
North Larnakshire Council finished second at the Local Government IT Excellence Awards 2007 for their use of its single shared assessment software from Integral Mobile Data (IMD) on mobile devices. The council has been using IMD’s Integral mForms single assessment solution on mobile devices as part of its MySWIS Mobile Assessment project. mySWIS Mobile Assessment […]
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£100K savings on Plymouth data management
The Plymouth Healthcare Community claims £100,000 worth of capital investment savings by deploying a new data storage solution to ensure full backup of its 18 terabyte data centre. The community estimates that its Falcon IPStor virtualisation platform has reduced labour costs and time by the equivalent of one storage administrator, while the flexibility of the […]
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