E-therapy website to be launched in UK
A new website based on e-therapy methods developed in Holland is to be launched next month in the UK. A wholly owned subsidiary of one of Holland’s largest treatment centre providers, Tactus, will provide a 16 week, online, structured clinical treatment programme for those that are concerned about their drinking habits. The idea is based […]
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French primaries ban mobiles
Mobile phones are to be banned from French primary schools, under new government measures to reduce the health risk to children. The new measures will also require companies to provide text-only hand sets and phones that will only work when connected to headsets to limit the danger of electromagnetic radiation. At present, French schools ban […]
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World’s first kids medical website announced
Medikidz has announced it will launch the world’s first dedicated children’s medical website in July.
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GPS patient tracking launched in Switzerland
Aerotel Medical Systems, a specialist in mobile and home-based telemedicine and telecare solutions, has partnered with GEBOA SA, to launch Aerotel’s GeoSKeeper GPS personal location system in Switzerland.
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HL7 releases child health EHR standard
Health Level Seven (HL7), the healthcare IT standards development organisation, has released the first standard specifying the key functional requirements for child healthcare in an electronic health record (EHR) system. The HL7 child health functional profile for EHR systems, builds on the HL7 EHR system functional model. It is the first for children approved by […]
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NHS anti-obesity drive goes online
The government has kicked off 2009 with the launch of a three-year anti-obesity initiative with a high profile multi-channel advertising campaign that will span TV, print, billboards and the Internet. Launched on Friday the campaign, called ‘Change4Life’, begins with £8m worth of television advertisements and a range of initiatives to get people to eat better […]
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Holland aims for electronic child records
All child healthcare providers will have to introduce electronic patient records by the end of 2009. André Rouvoet, the Dutch minister for youth and family, has said all institutions and bodies dealing with the healthcare of children must be using electronic patient files by the end of 2009. The minister set out the requirement in […]
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Health bodies to get details of citizens’ email and internet use
Public bodies in the UK, including health authorities, could be given the power to access details of everyone’s personal text messages, emails and internet use if new Home Office proposals are passed. The British government office has published a consultation paper, which considers making logs of all telephone calls and internet usage, including e-mails mandatory […]
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Malta’s Mater Dei gets bedside entertainment
Irish based patient entertainment specialist, Lincor Solutions, has implemented its bedside TV and clinical access system, MEDIVista at the Mater Dei hospital in Malta, in a deal worth over €1.6m. The new system, delivered in partnership with Melita Cable, has been implemented across all 825 beds at the Mater Dei hospital and will enable patients […]
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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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