Leeds Leads on E-Commerce
Examples of e-commerce working in NHS purchasing ands supplies were showcased at a conference hosted by Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust this week. The trust has produced one of the first UK examples of e-commerce in NHS purchasing. Head of supplies, Keith Lilley, showed how the system was working in the trust’s cardiac catheter labs. Bar […]
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CSW Builds HRI Prototype
CSW Health has announced that it has developed a Health Records Infrastructure (HRI) prototype for South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust in support of the NHS Information Authority’s development of a national HRI infrastructure. Currently undergoing final testing the new system, which provides an index of all records held on an individual patient in local clinical […]
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Lost Records Steal Doctors’ Time for Patients
Medical consulting time with patients at a London outpatient clinic fell between 1988 and 2001 with lost records accounting for a large amount of the time wasted, according to research published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The researchers at the Whittington Hospital, revisited a survey conducted in 1988 and found that […]
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Resource File: Planning for the New Emergencies
The National Audit Office’s recent report on emergency planning found that, while there had been an improvement in the planning for major incidents, there was still more to do especially for the newer post-September 11 threats. The links below offer information resources on IT designed to aid planning for the new kind of emergencies we […]
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Poole Wins HSJ Technology Award
Poole Hospital NHS Trust has won a Health Service Journal management award in the category for improving care with e-technology. The prize, sponsored by BT, was awarded for the trust’s development of an XML-based electronic patient record system. The trust, together with its technology partner Graphnet, has implemented an EPR system that now has more […]
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Siemens Tops European Health IT League
The health services division of Siemens Medical Solutions has been named the leader in the European Hospital Information Systems (HIS) market by health markets analyst Frost &Sullivan. Siemens purchase of Shared Medical Systems (SMS) has catapulted it into the number one slot in the European HIS sector, where it is now estimated to have an […]
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Early Warning System for Epidemics Launched
British health IT firm ComMedica has added a new module to its PIRILIS clinical information system that uses advanced algorithms to analyse data in order to predict the threat of epidemics such as influenza, or even epidemics caused by bioterrorism. ComMedica says the software addition will allow hospitals to more easily and quickly locate domestic […]
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IT Competence Rising in the NHS
Rising levels of basic IT competence are recorded in 2002 National Health Informatics Competency Survey – but the NHSIA has warned there is no room for complacency. The survey shows that 33% of NHS staff judge themselves to be competent in basic IT – a significant leap up from the 14% figure recorded in the […]
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US Healthcare Slow to Adopt IT
“The most dangerous instrument in medicine is the fountain pen,” according to group president of McKesson, Duncan James, interviewed in a BusinessWeek round up of US healthcare technology. The influential magazine and its online service concludes – as many have before – that healthcare has been very slow to adopt information technology that could improve […]
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Data Grid Announced for UK Mammography Research
IBM, Oxford University and the U.K. government have announced plans to build a distributed computing network, or next generation ‘data grid’, to share and store mammograms among health care providers and researchers The aim is to enable early screening and diagnosis of breast cancer, and to allow medical professionals to collaborate and share information that […]
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