Concern over encryption for practice-owned IT
GP representatives are concerned that GP practices that have bought their own desktops and mobile devices may miss out on encryption software bought for the NHS. Earlier this year, NHS Connecting for Health announced a deal with security software specialist McAfee to supply 700,000 licences for data encryption software to the NHS. This was part […]
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Better communications for Wales
NHS Wales is to develop a national email service for all staff, including GPs and other primary care workers. A new infrastructure strategy, published by Informing Healthcare, also outlines plans to extend the Welsh Health Telephone Network to primary care, so staff can take advantage of toll-free calls between phones connected to the network. And […]
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Platform for wearable health devices launched
Irish developer Realtime Technologies has launched a new hardware research platform called Shimmer, designed for wearable health sensing in both connected and wireless environments. Shimmer stands for Sensing Health with Intelligence, Modularity, Mobility, and Experimental Reusability, and uses Intel technology to help find new ways to monitor vital signs from devices worn by patients. Using […]
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King’s Fund to run telehealth network
The Department of Health has funded a network to help expand use of telehealth and telecare and disseminate the lessons learned from the Whole System Demonstrator programme. The Whole System Demonstrators Action Network involves an action research programme involving 10 to 12 of the unsuccessful sites for the WSD programme. The groups, made up of […]
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NHS Lothian declares ‘data amnesty’
A Scottish health board has declared a data amnesty after a community health worker lost a USB stick containing personal information on 137 patients.
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Latest BNFC interfaces with NHS dm+d
The new online edition of the latest BNF for Children – BNFC 2008 – will include a new interface to the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d). The BNF says this is intended to provide healthcare professionals with seamless access to BNFC content on the internet using NHS dm+d codes, “helping them to make […]
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Bainbridge warns of need for telecare
Health and social care services have five years to develop the telehealth and telecare services they will need to cope with an ageing population, Dr Mike Bainbridge, NHS Connecting for Health’s clinical architect, has warned. Speaking at a fringe session at this year’s NHS Confederation conference, Dr Bainbridge said that ageing combined with an increasing […]
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TPP to add Numed Capture to SystmOne
Primary care system supplier TPP has announced plans to integrate an image capture device into its software SystmOne. TPP and Numed, suppliers of diagnostic and patient monitoring devices, integrated Numed’s Biolog 3000i ECG device into SystmOne earlier this year and now plans to add Numed Capture. Numed Capture is a specially designed auto-focus camera with […]
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McAfee wins contract for NHS data encryption
NHS Connecting for Health has selected security software specialist McAfee to provide solutions for endpoint desktop encryption and port control, to protect confidential data on NHS computers and mobile devices. The announcement comes in response to NHS chief executive David Nicholson’s December instruction to all NHS trust chief executives to immediately review and tighten their […]
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Largest ever UK telecare trial starts
The start of the UK’s largest ever trial of telecare and telehealth in a £31m programme covering 6000 people has been announced by the Department of Health. Health secretary Alan Johnson said the Whole System Demonstrator (WSD) Programme had begun this week in Kent, Newham and Cornwall, testing the potential of technologies like telecare and […]
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