Liverpool Women’s Hospital delivers to midwives
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is testing a remote access solution for midwives using a new “office on stick” from Nortel. The trust is giving eight community midwives their own, lightweight Dell laptops with 3G wireless datacards so they can access medical notes and capture key data from patient’s homes. They will get access to […]
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Infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales
Informing Healthcare has published its infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales. The first edition covers networking, user access devices, servers and storage, messaging and collaboration, directory and voice services. In each case, the strategy describes the current position, the strategic aim and the next steps towards achieving this aim. However, Informing Healthcare says the resources needed […]
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Better communications for Wales
NHS Wales is to develop a national email service for all staff, including GPs and other primary care workers. A new infrastructure strategy, published by Informing Healthcare, also outlines plans to extend the Welsh Health Telephone Network to primary care, so staff can take advantage of toll-free calls between phones connected to the network. And […]
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Italian WiMAX ambulance project launched
A new ambulance communications system is using high speed, long distance WiMAX wireless connections to enable doctors to diagnose and begin treating critically ill patients before they reach hospital.
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Satellite-linked robot does ultrasound at sea
French robotic specialist Robosoft has partnered with the European Mobile and Robotised Telechography (MARTE) project, to carry out the first robotic tele-ultrasound examination via satellite. The company used its remotely controlled Estele robot with a wireless handset and developed using a robuBox software development kit, to perform an ultrasound from different locations, observed by a […]
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Platform for wearable health devices launched
Irish developer Realtime Technologies has launched a new hardware research platform called Shimmer, designed for wearable health sensing in both connected and wireless environments. Shimmer stands for Sensing Health with Intelligence, Modularity, Mobility, and Experimental Reusability, and uses Intel technology to help find new ways to monitor vital signs from devices worn by patients. Using […]
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EHI’s news roundup 25.07.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 25 July 2008 featuring supplier news and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Norfolk NHS website struck by Asprox virus The personal details of thousands of internet users who visited several key government and consumer websites are at risk because of a new form […]
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‘IT has generated substantial savings for us’
Philipp Grätzel speaks to Uwe Pöttgen, head of corporate department IT at Asklepios, about the ‘Asklepios Future Hospital Programme’.
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EHI’s news roundup 21.07.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week beginning 21 July 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Poole to deploy Alcatel-Lucent wireless network Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Dorset is deploying an Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Local Area Network to help improve patient care at its 789-bed hospital. The […]
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Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals
University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a heart attack, for their clinical training from September.
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