EHI Awards 2011: On the alert
A simple email alert system developed by Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has improved care for cancer patients. Chris Thorne reports.
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Birmingham looks for community system
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust is hoping to procure an electronic patient record, according to a tender notice.
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Birmingham patients get records access
Patients at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust are being given access to their own online medical records.
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Dr Foster and Birmingham clash again
One of two trusts identified by Dr Foster as having higher than expected death rates and more deaths than would be expected after surgery has described its methods as “flawed”. Dr Dave Rosser, executive director of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, issued a statement to various media organisations following the publication of this year’s […]
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N3 ‘stifling innovation’
The N3 network is stifling innovation, preventing sharing of information and addressing fundamentally the wrong security question, a question time session at eHealth Insider Live 2010 agreed.
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E-prescribing tablet at Heart of England
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has bought 100 Panasonic Toughbook tablet computers as part of its roll out of e-prescribing.
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Birmingham Portal drives info sharing
Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership has selected Dotted Eyes’ Health Portal to enable information sharing with GPs and between NHS and local authority organisations. The partnership, an alliance between the city’s primary care trusts and council to tackle health inequalities and improve health outcomes, said the portal would help it to meet the demands of […]
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iPlato supports Birmingham health checks
GP practices in Birmingham have used text messaging to invite patients for vascular screening checks, generating a 44% response rate from patients. Text messaging specialist iPlato said 24 GP surgeries from Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust used its Patient Care Messaging to call people for a vascular check. The checks, branded NHS Health […]
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Birmingham develops PHR
The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is preparing to provide patients with access to their medical information via a new personal health record.
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IT ready for UK’s biggest hospital move
The University Hospitals of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is implementing a live bed management system to help staff transfer patients from Selly Oak Hospital to the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which will open next week as the largest single-site hospital in the UK. The system, which has been piloted on four wards at Selly Oak […]
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