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17 November 2023

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ā˜•Ā 

Today's briefing includes an initiative to transform care at home for people in Cornwall and The DHSC launch of Pharmacy
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6 October 2023

Zebra proves value of barcoding in NHS but mission not yet accomplished

Wayne Miller of Zebra Technologies speaks exclusively about Zebraā€™s healthcare solutions and how barcoding can make a significant impact in
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10 July 2023

Govt mandate to NHSE calls for trusts to adopt barcode scanning by 2024

The government has mandated that all trusts across England should adopt barcode scanning of high-risk medical devices by March 2024.Ā 
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26 August 2021

NHS Scotland signs five-year deal with GS1 UK to drive standards rollout

NHS Scotland has signed a five-year agreement with GS1 UK to help drive the rollout of standards within provider organisations
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Royal Bath NHS
13 March 2019

Royal United Hospitals Bath selects Genesis for supplies solution

Genesis has been chosen to provide an inventory management and point of care solution that can help the RUH track
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10 September 2018

Leeds Teaching Hospitals celebrates triple Imprivata go-live

The trust has launched three products from Imprivata to speed up access to medical devices and digitise the recording of
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A clinician looks at a mobile device on the ward
7 February 2018

Leeds credits ‘dramatic’ improvement in patient visibility to Scan4Safety

Barcode technology means patient location can now be tracked in near real-time at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, its associate
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Leeds Teaching Scan 4 Safety
11 September 2017

Leeds Teaching to pull data from barcodes straight into EPR

The largest of the Scan4Safety demonstrator sites is to link information from barcodes to its electronic patient record (EPR) and
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A Scan4Safety barcode
4 January 2017

NHS barcode project aimed at improving patient safety

The humble barcode has been ubiquitous in retail for decades. Now the NHS is trying to use the technology to
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27 January 2016

GS1 demonstrator sites announced

Six NHS hospital trusts have been named as demonstrator sites for the use of GS1 standards and will share Ā£12
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