E-Health Insider – the first 100 issues
As the E-Health Insider newsletter celebrates the 100th edition, we take the opportunity to look back over highlights of two years coverage of e-health. December 2001 – Tablets within two years In EHI No 1 we reported on a Microsoft-Department of Health conference at which Bill Gates and Alan Milburn set out the vital role of […]
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Website Supports Teenagers Whose Parents Have Cancer
A new website that offers support and information to teenagers who have a parent with cancer has been launched by the University of Sheffield’s Academic Palliative Medicine Unit. The site, called Riprap is aimed at 12 to 16 year olds. Its unusual name means “loose stones placed in a stream onto which firm foundations can […]
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Healthcare IT and Devolution
The health services in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were detached from the English mother ship as part of devolution. This can be seen in terms of policies: in this week’s elections for the Welsh Assembly, Labour promised free prescriptions if it regained power. But it also means that IT is procured by each nation, […]
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Procurement Starts on Telepathology for Tees Valley and County Durham
Procurement has started on telepathology technology to enable videoconferencing and image sharing between cancer physicians in the Tees Valley and County Durham. An OJEC advertisement has been placed for the telemedicine solution which will serve six acute hospitals in the area between Darlington and Durham, covering Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Bishop Auckland and Hartlepool. The solution will […]
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Internet Consultations Contribute to Patient Care
Internet consultations between consultants at centres of excellence and referring doctors can contribute to patient care by generating suggestions for new treatments and providing timely access to specialist knowledge, a US study suggests. The researchers at Partners Telemedicine in Boston, writing in the British Medical Journal, evaluated a service called Partners Online Specialty Consultations that […]
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Gateshead Prescribes Business Intelligence Software
Gateshead Health NHS Trust has begun to use business intelligence software provided by Cognos to help monitor and proactively improve performance, including the key indicators that determine trust’s star ratings. The new analytical software, which went live last month, provides senior management at the trust with a more detailed view of key performance indicators and enhances […]
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Medical Records Found on Memory Stick
An incident in which a Cheshire estate agent found a memory stick she had bought contained confidential clinical records has highlighted the NHS’s failure to implement effective encryption services to protect patient information. Bolton Royal Hospitals NHS Trust has launched an investigation into how confidential medical records for 13 cancer patients were contained on a […]
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Torex Buys InHealth Solutions
Torex, the leading UK-based health software specialist, has acquired the laboratory, radiology, oncology, mental health and primary care operations of InHealth Solutions for £3.5 million in shares. The deal marks a further significant consolidation of the health IT supplier market serving the NHS and reinforces Torex’s position in both the primary and secondary care sectors. […]
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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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EDS is Preferred Supplier for NHS National e-Mail
EDS was named by the NHS Information Authority this week as the new preferred supplier for the NHS national e-mail service. The IT services multinational, which also handles substantial projects for the Inland Revenue and the Department for Work and Pensions and other government departments, was chosen ahead of Syntegra, the networking arm of British […]
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