Expert view: beating malware
Mark Jackson, consulting systems engineer, Cisco Systems, argues that it’s time for a new approach.
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Just champion
Sue Rushbrook won the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year award for her work on a voice and data network that has now been integrated with core computer systems.
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Westminster accelerates access to applications
Westminster Primary Care Trust has solved lengthy log in times for community staff by implementing a Cisco Wide Area Application Service across five of its 22 sites. By using the WAAS and sorting out profiles the PCT has reduced log on and log off times to its network from over seven minutes to less than a minute, […]
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Cisco sees return on staff PHRs
Managers at network technology giant Cisco Systems say the company is saving more than $4 for every $1 it invests in its employees’ health care using personal electronic healthcare records. In an evaluation of a pilot programme involving 600 staff at the company has concluded that employees who become involved in their PHRs are healthier […]
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Centre of Health Technology opens in Oslo
A European Centre of Health Technology has been opened in Oslo, Norway. The centre was officially opened by Parliamentary Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services, Kari Henriksen. Developed by strategic co-operation between HP, Telenor, Microsoft, Imatis and Cisco, the centre is equipped like a small hospital, complete with a patient room, […]
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Welsh hospitals deploy Cisco wireless
Clinicians at the Princess of Wales Hospital and Neath Port Talbot Hospital, part of the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (ABM) University NHS Trust in South Wales, are now able to access information about their patients’ bedsides using a new Cisco wireless Local Area Network (LAN). Using the wireless LAN, clinicians can now access information about their […]
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ICW to use Cisco for Healthcare Connector
Germany’s InterComponentWare (ICW) has announced it will be using the Cisco Application eXtension Platform as part of its Healthcare Connector product. ICW describes Health Connector as the critical technological component for the high security communication of health data. Using Cisco’s Application eXtension Platform, applications can be installed directly on a Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR), […]
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Nottingham to implement Cisco medical network
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a multi-million pound agreement to deploy a Cisco Medical-Grade Network to help it reduce costs, improve access to healthcare information, and provide patients with services faster and more efficiently. According to Cisco, once completed it will be one of the UK’s most advanced end-to-end Cisco Medical-Grade Networks supporting […]
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NHS Tayside launches video GP trial
NHS Tayside patients are the first to be able to use an out-of-hours GP video link to communicate with nurses or emergency practitioners for help with minor illnesses or injuries. Patients currently attending the out-of-hours service in a minor illness and injury unit in Perth & Kinross will be seen by a nurse or emergency […]
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Spanish Hospital deploys wireless tracking
Spain’s AT4 wireless has completed a project in Southern Spain to allow wireless tracking of nursing staff, improvement staff safety and tracking of equipment at the Hospital Alta Resolucion (Benalmadena). Ekahau, a Finnish specialist in Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), partnered with wireless firm AT4 to deliver the combined asset and staff tracking system […]
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