Technology Key to Engaging Children in Healthcare
Making better use of modern communications technologies is a strong strand running through a new government action plan to improve health services for children and young people. Listening, Hearing, Responding sets out detailed plans for increasing the involvement and participation of children and young people in all aspects of their care in the health system. […]
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New NeLH Service for Midwives and Pregnant Women
The National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) has opened up a new information section to support care for mothers and babies. The new service is the result of a partnership between the NeLH and MIDIRS – the Midwifery Information and Resource Service. Midwives and pregnant women can now view or download essential information produced by […]
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Strong Patient Demand for Online Access to Doctors
Ninety percent of adults who are online want some form of electronic communication with their doctors, according to US market researchers, Harris Interactive. A recent poll of just over 2000 people found that, of the 66% of respondents able to access an online connection, 77% wanted to ask questions when a visit to the doctor’s […]
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Five Booked Admissions ‘Enterprise Communities’ Announced
Five new ‘Enterprise Communities’ have been announced to speed up the introduction of electronic booked admissions into the NHS. The five sites will be supported by £2m of funding. In an address to NHS Booked Admissions Programme staff in Manchester today, health minister John Hutton said: "These new Enterprise Communities are leading the biggest healthcare […]
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Internet Will Empower Service Users
The 21st century will be the age of the net empowered medical end user and the patient-driven online support networks of today will evolve into more robust and capable medical guidance systems that will allow end users to direct and control an ever growing portion of their own medical care, an editorial in the British […]
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Enterprise Resource Planning Vital for NHS
The NHS must adopt modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to make better use of its capacity and resources if it is to cope with steadily rising levels of demand, leading IT vendors have warned. Hugo Schellens, general manager of Belgium bookings systems firm Ultragenda, said that the main problem facing the NHS was the […]
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Dr Koop Lifecare files for Bankruptcy
Dr. Koop LifeCare Corp, the long-troubled US online health information provider, announced on Sunday that it and its wholly-owned subsidiary will cease operations and liquidate its assets after failing to come up with additional debt or equity financing. The Santa Monica, California-based company, once a darling of Wall Street, said its efforts to obtain additional […]
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“Millstone of History” Holds Back UK E-Health
The UK health service is still struggling to adopt the information technology and business practices that will drag it out of the industrial era of hospital factories and into the information age model of virtual, patient-centric healthcare. But why is the health service apparently unable to get to grips with proven technologies that became commonplace […]
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Luton and Ducnstable Launches EPR System
Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust has announced that it has ‘gone live’ with a new £4 million Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system. The new EPR system holds electronic records of over of over 650,000 patients, and uses the PiMS patient administration system (PAS) supplied by iSoft. Implementation of the system has taken six months. […]
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