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Alston Healthcare plans telehealth project
Alston Healthcare, one of the Department of Health’s 26 social enterprise pathfinder projects, is working on a telehealth project. The Cumbrian company aims to provide community health services, including e-health services, across a rural area, with particular focus on older people. In 2006/07, it received £15,500 revenue and £5,000 capital from the Social Enterprise Unit […]
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Swindon takes telehealth to mainstream
Swindon PCT has mainstreamed its telehealth service, the fourth to do so in the last six months. The PCT is to move from 11 monitors to 50 after a successful pilot project showed that patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who used telehealth monitoring had one fewer hospital admissions over six months. Jan Tretheway, deputy […]
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Individual Health Record extended to acute care
Informing Healthcare has announced that the Individual Health Record has been used for the first time in acute care. Staff at the Medical Assessment Unit of the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport have been given access to the IHR, which is drawn from GP records and contains key details about a patient’s medical history. The […]
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Conservatives commission review of NHS IT
The Conservative Party has commissioned an independent review of NHS IT policy to be led by Dr Glyn Hayes.
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Updated version of SNOMED CT released
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation has announced that a new version of SNOMED CT is now available. The international release, which is the second this year, has a series of refinements aimed at enabling clinicians to continue working with IT systems with minimal disruption to their daily routines. Revisions to the international version […]
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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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Choice on the buses
Solihull NHS Care Trust and Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust have launched a four month advertising campaign for patient choice and Choose and Book. The campaign, which started this week, will see advertisements placed on 124 buses, 85 bus stops and 48 billboards along major bus routes in the area. The two organisations […]
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NHS Connecting for Health backs Healthcare Interoperability showcase
NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for England’s IT modernisation programme, is sponsoring the Best Practice Showcase at E-Health-Insider’s Healthcare Interoperability conference and exhibition this autumn. The showcase will give IM&T professionals working in healthcare organisations the opportunity to describe and demonstrate good work they are doing to achieve interoperability between systems. One of […]
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London pharmacies use SMS for stop smoking drive
Pharmacies in London are to use text messaging to launch a smoking cessation campaign and offer customers support to kick the habit. The pharmacies will use iPLATO’s Patient Care Messaging for Pharmacies service to validate smoking status, invite “quitters” to smoking cessation services and “follow up” with them over a year. They will also receive […]
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