Worcestershire connect to COIN for joined-up working
All NHS sites in Worcestershire are to be connected to a single Community of Interest Network (COIN) to allow information and data to be shared almost instantly between staff at any time. The Worcestershire health community has signed a five year deal with BT, working in conjunction with Nortel and Microsoft, to create a unified […]
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Docobo make multi-user version of telehealth device
Telehealth specialist Docobo has unveiled a multi-user version of its HealthHUB portable home monitor, meaning two or more patients can now utilise one device. The HealthHUB system enables patients to record vital signs, symptoms, lifestyle and quality of life measures around the clock from any location. This information is then securely transferred to the doc@HOME […]
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60 Second Interview: Dr Paul O’Reilly
Joe Fernandez quizzes Dr Paul O’Reilly, a GP Partner at the Doctor Hickey Surgery in London.
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Video assistance devices launched for elderly
A new mobile video assistance technology programme funded by the European Commission’s eTEN programme and designed to aid elderly people to live independently at home is ready for deployment. The Belgian designed Advanced TeleassisTance convErgent NeTwork for chronIc diseAse patieNts and Elders projecT – (ATTENTIANET) – offers elderly people a complete package to keep them […]
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A work in progress
EHI Primary Care editor Fiona Barr looks back on the developments during 2007 and shape of things to come in 2008.
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2008: the year telecare grows up?
A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.
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DH telecare demonstrator trials to start work
Small scale trials for the Department of Health’s Whole System Long Term Conditions Demonstrator Programme are to begin in the New Year, ahead of the full implementation in the spring. The two year programme will officially start in April 2008 but the three selected areas, Newham, Cornwall and Kent, will begin testing the concepts involved […]
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Integration to improve newborn testing
One of the 2 million babies to be screened since the launch of NHSP The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) will soon be able to automatically import data from screening devices into a central database, with the aid of InterSystems’ Ensemble integration platform. The NHSP has been using the eScreener Plus (eSP) system from […]
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Lanarkshire’s mobile single assessment commended
North Larnakshire Council finished second at the Local Government IT Excellence Awards 2007 for their use of its single shared assessment software from Integral Mobile Data (IMD) on mobile devices. The council has been using IMD’s Integral mForms single assessment solution on mobile devices as part of its MySWIS Mobile Assessment project. mySWIS Mobile Assessment […]
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Mobile SAP helped Swindon’s flood victims
During the summer’s floods housebound patients in Swindon were visited and assessed by community practitioners, who used mobile devices running the web-based Single Assessment Process software from Liquidlogic. The software integrates health and social care data between Swindon Borough Council and Swindon PCT and allows practitioners to use a shared assessment platform via an internet-based […]
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