US finds winning cancer apps
Developers in the US have created mobile applications which make use of public data to help detect, prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.
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Cancer risk tools make progress
More than 150 GP practices are taking part in a paper-based trial of a risk assessment tool for cancer diagnosis ahead of a computerised version due to be launched later this year.
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Welsh software used for NI screening
Northern Ireland is using software developed in Wales to extend its bowel cancer screening programme.
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Southend signs CIS Oncology deal
CIS Oncology has been awarded a contract to provide Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with an oncology pharmacy dispensing system.
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GP cancer tool ‘a work in progress’
Dr Willie Hamilton, a GP and expert in cancer diagnosis from Bristol University, talks to Fiona Barr about the computer assisted cancer risk assessment tool that has been promised by the Department of Health.
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Nottingham extends cancer solution
Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust has announced it will deploy a customised reporting solution across 15 of its specialist tumour departments. The trust is extending its CNodes reporting solution to give it greater visibility of the patient pathway from initial referral to eventual outcome. The trust will continue to use reporting software from business intelligence […]
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NI awards €78m contract to HP
Northern Ireland’s Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has awarded a contract worth up to €78.5m to Hewlett-Packard to update the technology behind the country’s hospital patient administration systems. The framework contract includes procuring ICT equipment and services for regional projects across Northern Ireland over the next four years and providing a range […]
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Somerset cancer register goes national
The Somerset Health Informatics Service has developed an electronic register to help cancer patients across the country receive treatment more quickly. The register allows clinicians to access up-to-date patient information when they need it, anywhere within a hospital setting. Ruth King, business services manager for Somerset HIS, a shared service hosted by Taunton and Somerset NHS […]
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Lansley outlines Tory NHS plans
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged to cut the cost of NHS bureaucracy by a third at the Conservative Party conference. Lansley gave few details of where his £1.5 billion of savings would come from, although he attacked commissioning bodies, NHS quangos and “political” targets as examples of Labour profligacy. He claimed that switching […]
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Barts 18 week backlog in thousands
A new care record system has contributed to thousands of patients from Barts and the London NHS Trust potentially breaching the national 18-week referral to treatment time target. The trust is facing a backlog of 23,000 potential breaches, and although it says the situation is improving – and it has resumed reporting on 18-week waits […]
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