Sealed with a KIS
The team behind Scotland’s Key Information Summary won the 2013 EHI Award for ‘excellence in major healthcare IT development’. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Scotland sticks with Carestream RIS
National Services Scotland has awarded a £2m contract to Caresteam to supply a radiology information system to serve NHS hospitals in Scotland.
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NasH boards get dashboards
Glasgow hit by IT failure
An “unprecedented IT issue” has forced NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to postpone more than 500 patient appointments over the past 36 hours.
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Scotland gets HANDI
The Scottish cluster of the Healthcare App Network for Development and Innovation has been launched at the Health Informatics Scotland conference in Edinburgh.
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Scots deploy Key Information Summary
More than 60% of Scottish GP practices are live with the new Key Information Summary for patients with complex care needs.
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Robot to help dementia patients
NHS Western Isles will put robots in the homes of people with dementia as part of a pilot scheme to keep them at home for longer.
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NHS Highland takes TrakCare
NHS Highland will deploy InterSystems’ TrackCare patient management system starting this November.
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Dental students get 3D training
New 3D visualisation software of the head and neck is transforming medical and dental training in Scotland.
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An app to fly by
An app to make the standard operating procedures of Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service available to clinicians in the air won the mobile category of last year’s EHI Awards. Emma Dent reports.
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