James Paget gets outsider PACS
James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust in Norfolk has become the first hospital trust in England to go live with an out-of-cluster PACS system – one supplied by a local service provider from outside the trust’s region. Although the trust sits within the Eastern region of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), last Thursday it […]
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Virtual healthcare research institute launched
A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in Healthcare Practice (VIRIHP). Members will work together via online discussion boards, email and telephone and video conferencing in addition to conventional face-to-face meetings twice a year. One of the institute’s objectives will be to “develop […]
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Review of Connecting for Health imminent
Gordon Hextall, chief operating officer of NHS Connecting for Health has revealed that a review of the NHS National Programme for IT is to be carried out to bring it up to date with NHS policy developments and the impact of new technologies. Hextall said that it was five years since the original policy Information […]
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Awards gallery
Photos of the winners and speakers at last week’s
E-Health Innovation Awards ceremony in London, organised by E-Health Insider and Intellect.
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E-Health Innovation Awards winners announced
Health technology projects that help diabetic patients, speed up results reporting for X-rays and scans and deliver vital information for organ transplant teams were among the winning entries in the first E-Health Innovation Awards 2005. The awards, organised by Intellect and E-Health Insider, have been designed to highlight the application and use of innovative ICT […]
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Shortlist shows cream of UK e-health innovation
With just under two weeks to go before the presentation of the E-Health Innovation Awards 2005 the details of shortlisted entrants are now available and listed below. Of course the category winners will not be known until the big night on 21 April when GP and broadcaster, Dr Phil Hammond, will compere the awards ceremony […]
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Do no harm
Peter Singleton of Cambridge Health Informatics considers the case of a patient who tried to opt out of electronic recording. Efforts to preserve confidentiality go back to Hippocrates, he argues.
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Keeping an eye on ID
Identifying patients to access their records can be a big problem for A&E staff and paramedics. So why not use biometric scanning, wonders Michael Casey?
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Breast cancer and nurse prescribing websites sold
Cambridge University Press has bought two healthcare websites – Breast Cancer Online and Nurse Prescriber as part of an acquisition of Greenwich Medical Media Limited. Breast Cancer Online, with 17,000 registered users, is a peer-reviewed educational site covering new trends and topical information on breast cancer for healthcare professionals. Nurse Prescriber addresses the market opened […]
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Addenbrooke’s To Develop Web-based Cancer System
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is to build a Web-based clinical cancer information system for use within the trust over NHSnet and by other partners in the local health economy. Called the Joint Clinical Information System project, the project is being run by three project partners – Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust in Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the […]
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