Northumbria switches to speech recognition
A trust-wide implementation of advanced digital dictation and speech recognition software is planned for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. The aim will be to reduce turnaround time and transcription blockages in the trust’s one million items of patient correspondence every year. Piloting of the new system, G2 Speech’s SpeechReport with Philips’ SpeechMagic, will start in May and the […]
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Electronic medical records top priority for US
US healthcare IT executives have named implementing a paperless electronic medical record (EMR) their top priority in the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS) leadership poll. Nearly two-thirds of healthcare IT executives said their organisation planned to implement an EMR in the next two years, according to the 16th annual HIMMS leadership survey. […]
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Isabel releases adult decision support software
Isabel Healthcare has announced a release of its new clinical decision support software designed to help reduce misdiagnosis in all major sectors of healthcare. “For us this is a very big issue. When people look at patient safety, they tend to talk about medication errors. Misdiagnosis is much higher," Jason Maude, CEO of Isabel Healthcare, told E-Health […]
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Great Ormond Street selects JAC for drug management
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has signed a contract with JAC Computer Services, a division of US-based Mediware Information Systems, for the provision of medicine management software. The contract will deliver a computerised medicines management system to support the delivery of clinical-care processes associated with the prescribing and administration of medicines to children. […]
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New A&E system for Nottingham
Queen’s Medical Centre, part of University Hospital, Nottingham NHS Trust, has procured and implemented a new A&E system to track patients through the busy casualty department marking an important step towards the hospital’s goal of becoming paperless. The A&E system was supplied by Australian firm HASS, an iSOFT company, and is a system already in […]
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Flexibility key, says Forrest
In an exclusive interview, Martyn Forrest, Regional Implementation Director for the North East of England sets out the challenges of making sure NPfIT is delivered.
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Paediatrics software given funding injection
Isabel Healthcare has received a £1.7m funding boost to further develop its paediatric decision support software for the US market and to finalise an adult version of the software. Isabel, a diagnostic tool for paediatricians, uses pattern recognition to give alternative and likely diagnoses given lists of symptoms. It works with a series of medical […]
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Engage or risk failure, BMA IT chief tells NPfIT
Dr John Powell, chair of the British Medical Association’s IT committee, has issued a fresh call to the National Programme for IT to engage with healthcare professionals or risk another public sector IT failure. Speaking at the IBC Informa ‘eHealth: Transforming healthcare access and delivery’ conference in London yesterday, Dr Powell said: "We need to learn […]
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Open source software could save NHS money
The Office of Government Commerce has made recommendations that public procurement of software should consider open source solutions, citing, amongst other case studies, the experience of a Dublin-based hospital that made significant savings in transferring all its software to open source. The report says that public sector bodies should “examine carefully the technical and business […]
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Surgeon tags patients with WiFi to improve safety
Birmingham Heartlands Hospital is claiming to have the world’s first pilot of wireless active tagging system for patients, with links to electronic records containing digital photographs and a new easily-updatable electronic operating list. The system was introduced as part of a pilot three weeks ago to save time on verifying pre-operative checks, and to improve patient safety. […]
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