E-Health Insider’s industry round up 15.5.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers news from the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate, new products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers.
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Bury using SCR for end of life care
The Summary Care Record will start to hold information on end of life plans in the next few months, according to NHS Connecting for Health. The IT agency has set out its plans to develop the SCR for end of life care and the progress that has been made at NHS Bury, one of the early […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 24.04.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Directorate receives ISO accreditation The directorate at Walsall Manor Hospitals NHS Trust that manages estates, telecommunications and medical equipment has achieved the ISO 9001 quality management system standard – the first time a whole hospital directorate […]
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Consultation into ethics of new technologies
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has launched a public consultation on the ethical issues related to online healthcare, telemedicine and commercial medical profiling technologies. The consultation will form the next stage of its inquiry into The Ethics of Personalised Healthcare in the Consumer Age, which was launched in October 2008. The council’s expert working group […]
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Talking hands
SignTranslate Hospital won the Healthcare ICT Product Innovation category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards, sponsored by Quicksilva. Sandra Hempel finds out more.
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Healthcare ICT Product Innovation
The Healthcare ICT Product Innovation category of 2008’s BT e-Health Insider Awards was won by SignTranslate for SignTranslate Hospital. The runners up in the category, which was sponsored by Quicksilva, were C-PORT and Patient Partner from Voice Connect.
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East Kent cuts turn around times with SRC
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has been able to reduce cancer diagnosis times by deploying digital dictation with speech recognition from SRC. The new technology is allowing pathologists to dictate results in real-time. As a result, histology reporting turnaround times have been cut from a week to often the same day. Paul Williams, […]
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NHS launches cancer toolkit
The NHS has formally launched a Cancer Commissioning Toolkit to help local NHS managers to develop better cancer-fighting strategies based on national standards and data. Until recently, data on the effective use of cancer drugs, treatments and waiting times has been held in 15 competing databases and often in paper format. The toolkit is a […]
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Information prescriptions expanded
The Department of Health is publicising information prescriptions and has said that an information accreditation scheme should be launched later this year. Thirteen information prescriptions are now live on the NHS Choices website. These were promised in the 2006 white paper, Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, as a way of directing patients to reliable […]
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NHS Training for Innovation launched
The NHS technology training hub, THOTH, has been re-launched as NHS Training for Innovation and announced it is working on a programme of e-learning to help train health professionals to safely use different medical devices. Announcing the new name, Paul Vousden, managing director, said: “NHS Training for Innovation will fulfil a very important need – […]
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