Social workers get £13m for laptops
The government is to give local authorities a capital grant of £13million to invest in mobile IT for social workers. The grant, announced by children’s minister Parmjit Dhanda, is to be spent on mobile IT including laptops and personal digital assistants and is aimed at helping social workers adapt to new ways of working and […]
News
Scottish GPs to start issuing barcoded scrips
Scotland’s electronic transmission of prescriptions project is to get underway in April when GP practices will begin to produce barcoded prescriptions for almost all prescribing. By the end of the next financial year Scotland aims to have fully implemented ETP via its eAcute Medication Service (eAMS) and implemented repeat dispensing through its eChronic Medication Service […]
News
Tunstall leads European telecare project
Telecare specialist, Tunstall, is co-ordinating a part EU-funded project called SOPRANO, which will design and develop new telehealth solutions for elderly people. The Service Orientated Programmable Smart Environments for Older Europeans (SOPRANO) is a €12m (£8m) research and development project aimed at developing new ways of integrating assistive technology, telecare and telehealth solutions into users’ […]
News
Telecare firm supports learning disability project
Telecare provider, Tunstall, has joined a new project called Through Assistive Technology to Employment (TATE), designed to increase employability for people with learning difficulties and support individual living. Tunstall were approached by the project team and agreed to help to develop and mainstream assistive technology devices and telecare systems to help meet the needs of […]
News
N3 problems leave users unable to access internet
An update to the internet gateway of the NHS’s new national network (N3) continues to create problems for users accessing the internet, with NHS staff reporting either very slow connections or being unable to access e-mails on mobile devices. On Wednesday Connecting for Health’s service status site was reporting "internet gateway issues" on N3. The […]
News
Telecare deal for 500 packages in Cumbria
Five hundred homes across Cumbria are to receive telecare packages following a contract award to suppliers, Tunstall, by the local county council. The move follows a successful pilot scheme earlier this year and will be funded using some of the £860,000 Preventative Technology Grant (PTG), allocated to the council by the Department of Health. Cumbria County […]
News
New GPS telecare bracelet to go on sale
Canadian mobile technology specialists Medical Intelligence Technologies Inc. has signed a letter of intent with British telecare specialists Tunstall for UK distribution of its GPS-enabled Columba telecare bracelet. The Columba (right) is a watch size bracelet combining a hands-free portable telephone, an intelligent alert system and a global positioning system (GPS). When necessary, it transmits the […]
News
Mobile version of Clinical Evidence launched
The BMJ Publishing Group and US knowledge management systems developers, Unbound Medicine, have launched a new mobile resource which gives clinicians full clinical evidence notes from the BMJ Clinical Evidence database The device will help clinicians make evidence-based decisions at a patient’s bedside using a personal digital assistant (PDA), allowing them to quickly review the […]
News
Review says e-SAP fragmented and lacks standards
A Connecting for Health review of implementations of the electronic single assessment process (e-SAP) has revealed a lack of integration and standards across the country. A National SAP Action Team set up by Connecting for Health’s Care Record Development Board carried out a survey of e-SAP implementation in early summer and consulted on how e-SAP implementation should […]
News
Tablet tests
How did three E-Health Insider readers get on with new tablet PCs in their work? A GP, a dermatologist and an EPR manager review the Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook P1510.
Feature