Wirral tenders for new patient care system
A trust that pioneered the use of IT in the NHS is tendering for a new patient care information system because its 15-year-old software will not last until a replacement arrives from the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). An OJEU advertisement issued by Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust says that implementation is planned to start in […]
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Image-sharing over web helps child burn patients
Two west London hospitals, St Mary’s Paediatric A&E, Paddington, and Chelsea & Westminister’s specialist burns unit, have developed an electronic image-sharing link that replaces the old system of doctors describing patients’ injuries over the phone. A large JPEG of the patient’s injury is taken over a digital camera and uploaded to the software. The image […]
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Let Pioneers Keep on Pioneering, Says Frank Burns
One of the best known pioneers of IT in the NHS has issued an eloquent plea for trusts that make the running to be allowed to stay ahead while national standards are raised. Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, Merseyside, and one of the principal authors of the 1998 NHS IT strategy, […]
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Is Telemedicine Finally Delivering the Goods?
Telemedicine is working hard to wipe out its reputation for producing interesting projects but not much real-life action – and papers at the Royal Society of Medicine’s TeleMed ’02 conference this week reflected that mission. Titled “From Research to Service Delivery”, the conference’s agenda clearly aimed to convince the sceptics and hard-headed budget holders that […]
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