Healthcare booths go on trial in Scotland
Patients in Scotland will be able to get treatments in specialised health booths, as part of a new collaboration between Cisco and the Scottish Centre for Telehealth.
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Data centre failure left practices without SystmOne
A fault at a BT-run data centre left GP practices using TPP’s SystmOne experiencing performance problems with their system for three hours last month. EHI Primary Care understands that the failure on September 18 affected all TPP’s SystmOne users from early morning until about 11am. The problem is the second time in just over a […]
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BNF for mobile devices launched
Britain’s best-known medicines guide, the British National Formulary, is now available especially configured to be used on a range of mobile devices including BlackBerrys and Apple’s new iPhone. The BNF aims to provide prescribers, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals with essential information on the selection of safe and effective medicines for individual patients. It is […]
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Greater Manchester extends telemedicine ECG service
The Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network have successfully piloted a new telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch to provide expert cardiology reporting for patients and will now roll the system out to a total of almost 150 practices. The system allows 12-lead ECGs to be carried out in the GP practice by a doctor […]
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Encouraging results from 2D barcoded scripts in Wales
A community pharmacy and GP practice in west Wales are testing the use of 2D barcoded prescriptions for use in the electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP). The Welsh Community Pharmacy IM&T Programme, which has been running the trial since April, says early results have been very encouraging. The ETP programme in Wales, known as 2DRx, […]
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Safety technology needed to protect nurses, says RCN
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is calling for the NHS to fund mobile devices to enable community nurses working alone to summon help after it found more than one in three have been assaulted or harassed in the last two years. The RCN this week launched a campaign, You’re Not Alone, to press the government to […]
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Cardiac telemedicine could save NHS £46m says report
A pilot of cardiac telemedicine services in Cumbria and Lancashire has concluded that if introduced nationally the technology could save 100s of lives, lead to 45,000 fewer hospital admissions and save the NHS around £46m. In a pilot lasting 18 months, NHS North West, in collaboration with the NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Cardiac Network […]
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£12m awarded to three home telecare sites
Teams in Kent, Newham and Cornwall have been awarded £12m to look at how best home telecare can be implemented. The areas will form the Whole System Demonstrator pilots promised by the white paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, and will be the biggest ever pilot of telecare and telehealth in the UK , […]
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Consumer is king in wireless health
More consumer-driven wireless developments are on the horizon as mobile technology enjoys wider adoption in healthcare.
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Mobile phone that monitors health developed
A mobile phone that will measure patients’ vital signs and will deliver the results straight to GPs is being developed by academics at Leeds University. The prototype ‘next-generation’ phone is being designed to allow patients to monitor their own health and receive advice from the comfort of their own home. Using a Bluetooth connection, the […]
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