NHS Direct pilots decision aids
NHS Direct is piloting three online decision aids designed to help patients make more informed choices about medical tests and treatments where there is no clinical evidence about which are better for them. The online patient decision aids (OPDA), which are part of the first national web-based project in the UK of its kind, are […]
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EHI’s industry round up 31.05.2010
This month’s industry round up includes news of the savings that Mid Yorkshire Hospitals is making with a Salford Software identity management solution, new business for Cisco and HD Clinical, and contract wins for providers of e-rostering, asset management and e-learning software. Mid Yorks saves with identity management Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has said […]
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Cambridge trials path system with Carefx
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has announced it is working with workflow solutions company Carefx to pilot a proactive pathology results system.
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Plain launches self-assessment tool
Decision support specialist Plain Healthcare has launched a self-assessment tool to enable patients to assess their symptoms before seeing a GP. The company has also announced the release of a web-deployed version of its triaging software. Odyssey SelfAssess is designed to enable patients to assess their own needs instead of or before consulting a health […]
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Image Analysis targets UK market
Image Analysis, the company that specialises in developing computer-aided algorithms for MRI data analysis, is calling on the NHS to adopt its technology, which is widely used in the rest of Europe. The company, which develops the algorithms for faster and more accurate detection of disease, has already deployed the software in hospitals across Poland, […]
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NHS 24 extends Clinical Solutions deal
Scotland’s health advice service, NHS 24, has extended its contract with Clinical Solutions for telephone triage and clinical content services.
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On the right path
Gifford Batstone, national clinicallead for pathology, says interoperability is the key to modernising pathology IT – and work is underway to make sure it happens.
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EHI’s industry round-up 25.02.10
This month’s industry round-up has news about contracts, the latest deployments and product launches – including the announcement of Lorenzo for the iPhone – and some new or improved websites for those working in health and IT. NHS NSS signs InterSystems deal NHS National Services Scotland and InterSystems have formally signed a national framework contract […]
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Devon and Exeter looks for tactical EPR
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for the “first elements of a tactical electronic patient record” with the vision of implementing a full EPR by 2014.
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