We’re getting there…
It’s nine months since Morecambe Bay gave Lorenzo a ‘soft landing’. Sarah Bruce got on the train to see what progress it has made since then.
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Quality counts
The Quality and Outcomes Research Unit at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust was the overall winner in last year’s BT E-Health Insider awards. Daloni Carlisle finds out why.
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Stockport rolls out in-house EDM
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has begun rolling-out an in-house document management system to the 57 primary care trusts in its area. The system, known as Advantis, is already generating more than 1,700 documents per day, which can be delivered in real-time or on a scheduled basis directly to GPs. The service allows all discharge summaries, […]
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Industry round-up 22.06.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Indian buyers seek out UK market Buyers representing hospitals in India will come to the UK next week in search of new medical equipment, supplies and healthcare services. More than 50 UK healthcare and medical technology […]
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Mind that child
Dr David Low, consultant paediatrician and national clinical lead for paediatrics and child health at NHS Connecting for Health, discusses the importance of child records.
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NHS radiology kit rolled-out
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has sent trusts in England a new radiology kit to help departments improve their booking processes and reduce waiting times. Transforming your Radiology Services Kit: Focus on Booking Processes, intends to reduce the long waiting times often caused by a bottleneck in patient pathways as part of the […]
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Worthing and Southlands deploys BigHand
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust has been able to deliver same day referral letters as a result of implementing a digital dictation workflow system from BigHand. The technology allows the trust’s 300 users to record and instantly submit dictations to the workflow system, so secretaries can immediately begin to transcribe them. Secretaries are able […]
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BMA calls for more training simulators
The British Medical Association has called for more investment in simulators and skills labs to maintain training opportunities for junior doctors as their hours come down. The BMA says facilities being piloted in the North West could help trainees to develop their skills as traditional training opportunities are cut with the full application of the […]
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Talking hands
SignTranslate Hospital won the Healthcare ICT Product Innovation category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards, sponsored by Quicksilva. Sandra Hempel finds out more.
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GPS tracking for dementia patients
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has announced it is trialling the use of GPS devices to track dementia patients. The GPS systems are aimed at prolonging the length of time people can spend living in their own homes and also to monitor patients when they are out and about. The trackers, which […]
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