North Bristol pilots bedside computing
North Bristol NHS Trust is replacing paper observation charts on patient beds with tablet computers in a pilot starting next month.
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GOSH entertains children with MEDIVista
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has announced that it will implement new MEDIVista bedside entertainment and education systems from Irish company Lincor Solutions. The systems will provide entertainment including Freeview TV channels, internet, instant messaging, films, and radio. They will also allow the trust’s school to deliver its educational programmes to patients. The […]
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Liverpool improves patient entertainment
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is deploying a new entertainment solution to systems at patient bedsides that also enable its clinicians to access its patient information system. The trust has already started to roll-out the solution from Exterity, which uses the hospital’s existing IP network to supply TV and radio channels to its Philips CareServant patient […]
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Patientline acquired by Hospedia
Patientline UK has announced its decision to enter administration and been acquired by the newly formed Hospedia Ltd, a hospital entertainment and telephony company funded by the existing Patientline banking syndicate. The acquisition, which was announced late on Friday, will see £35m of Patientline’s debt wiped out through a debt for equity swap, if it […]
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Ofcom calls for review of hospital phone charges
A review group is to be set up to look at hospital bedside telephone and entertainment services and see whether these can be provided without controversial high charges for incoming calls to patients. Ofcom, the communications watchdog, recommended that the review should be conducted by the Department of Health following its own six month investigation […]
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