Automated COPD warnings cut hospital admissions
An automated telephone alert system to warn people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) about forthcoming bad weather has cut emergency hospital admissions by more than a fifth, according to the Met Office. Healthy Outlook, the health forecasting service provided by the Met Office, was used to alert more than 8,000 patients from 189 GP […]
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Walsall begins in-house e-discharge project
Walsall Manor Hospital has begun the first stage of an in-house electronic discharge summary project, designed to increase communication between the hospital and local GP practices. Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust’s associate director of IT business change, Maggie Craddock, said: “This was something we chose to do in-house in advance of the national NHS Connecting for […]
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Scotland superbug alert system delayed
The Electronic Communication of Surveillance in Scotland system, which will be used to alert doctors to superbug outbreaks, will not be launched until next year. The web-based early warning system was meant to be deployed later this year. However, Health Protection Scotland, the agency responsible for ECOSS, says linking Scottish diagnostic labs to the system […]
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Shropshire PCT implements electronic safety alerts
Shropshire County PCT has implemented the Datix Safety Alerts system to notify staff when any clinical incident happens. The Datix Safety Alerts system is used to notify PCT staff about medical equipment in need of checking or replacement. Additionally, Department of Health estates alerts about buildings and domestic equipment are dealt with via the new […]
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Servicio Extremeno de Salud selects Autonomy
Spanish public healthcare service provider Servicio Extremeno de Salud has selected Autonomy to provide it with an enterprise-wide search platform to underpin a new prescription alert system Servicio Extremeno de Salud (SES), a provider of health services to a million citizens in the Extremadura region of Spain, will use technology supplied by Autonomy to quickly […]
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CSC markets Alert to the NHS
Computer Sciences Corporation has stepped up its marketing of a Portuguese electronic patient record (EPR) system called Alert to NHS trusts in the North Midlands and East of England. CSC is understood to have invested technical resources in evaluating and testing the Alert EPR over the past six months. The move comes despite ongoing delays […]
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Israeli medical centre to roll out active RFID
European RFID specialist Wavetrend Technologies has signed a deal with the newly built Ashdod Medical Centre in Southern Israel, to instal active RFID ports across the building to monitor movements of patients and assets. Working in partnership with Isreali system integration company, Ardan Control Tech, Wavetrend will install an infrastructure of active RFID for asset […]
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CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’
The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon Hextall.
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Evaware launches new telehealth platform
Software developer, Evaware has launched a new telehealth device, which wirelessly connects with its Project E-vita web-based electronic patient record, enabling clinicians to remotely monitor the vital signs of their home-based patients. The telehealth device uses Bluetooth technology to link with the EPR and set clinical thresholds to monitor. If these thresholds are […]
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Ofcom forecasts growth in healthcare IT
Media regulator Ofcom has picked healthcare as a key sector for the widespread deployment of information technology in its latest report on trends. Tomorrow’s Wireless World, the third annual report from its technology research programme, says “breakthroughs leading to fundamental shifts in the underlying science” of ICTs are rare, and there is unlikely to be […]
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