NHS Choices selects Capita as preferred bidder
Capita has been announced as the preferred bidder to deliver NHS Choices for the next three years.
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IMEC boosts wireless ECG patch
Flexible core of IMEC’s smart ECG patch. A new wireless patient monitoring ECG patch has been developed for cardiac monitoring by IMEC Belgium, an independent research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology. The innovative flexible ECG patch is intended to monitor single-lead ECG in individual’s daily-life conditions, providing new opportunities for cardiovascular disease management. The patch can […]
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Heart surgery survival data published
The NHS has published data for trusts across the country on the survival rates of four different conditions. The data is published today on NHS Choices and is intended to help patients make informed choices about where they get treatnment. The data for the four common cardiac operations for each trust in England comes from […]
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Kent and Medway use COIN for cardiac care
Kent informatics staff at Darent Valley A new Community of Interest Network (COIN) at Kent and Medway is helping cardiac surgeons consult with specialists in London, and provide treatment on the same day where appropriate. Cardiac surgeons at the trust regularly consult with specialists in London to decide if angiogram images of the heart show […]
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EHI’s news roundup 27.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 27 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news NHS Choices launches women’s health guide NHS Choices launched a new guide to women’s health in the age bracket of 18-39, aimed at helping women find out more about maintaining a […]
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Biotronik launches cardiac telecare system
Biotronik Lumax 540 German telemedicine device specialist, Biotronik, has launched a new home monitoring device offering remote, wireless advanced patient management and providing daily protection for patients with life-threatening cardiac conditions. Biotronik’s ‘Home Monitoring’ system has been designed to enable continuous automatic daily data transmission of the patient’s cardiovascular status. Once wirelessly connected, the information […]
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Bosch Hospital to introduce AiDKlinik
Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart has introduced the electronic medication module AiDKlinik to improve medication safety. The tool offers sophisticated medication alerts, for example warnings in case of clinically relevant interactions and dosing aids for children or patients with impaired renal function. The software was developed by ‘Dosing’, a spin-off of Heidelberg University. “We started […]
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NHS Choices to publish death rates
The Department of Health (DH) is to publish death rates of patients undergoing major surgery at NHS hospitals in England, on the NHS Choices website from later this summer. The aim of the move is to provide patients with information on the mortality rates of NHS trusts carrying out major surgical procedures such as hip […]
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EHTEL launch report on future of telemedicine
A new report from the European Health Telematics Association has issued a report detailing a series of recommendations for achieving sustainable telemedicine services in Europe by 2020. The ”Sustainable Telemedicine: paradigms for future-proof healthcare” report presents the current achievements and best practice examples drawn from a number of ongoing projects across Europe, as well as […]
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Oxford deploy new electronic discharge system
Around 4000 staff at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust are using a new Immediate Discharge Document (e-IDD) software package from CSW to enable hospital-wide collaboration when each inpatient is discharged. The busy hospital currently has approximately 521,000 outpatient appointments every year and wanted a way of enabling its ward-based doctors and pharmacists to work together […]
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