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NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards for the Emergency Care Summary.
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Lone NHS workers get safety alarms
The Department of Health has announced that 30,000 lone NHS workers are to get personal safety alarms incorporating location tracking technology.
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Consultation into ethics of new technologies
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has launched a public consultation on the ethical issues related to online healthcare, telemedicine and commercial medical profiling technologies. The consultation will form the next stage of its inquiry into The Ethics of Personalised Healthcare in the Consumer Age, which was launched in October 2008. The council’s expert working group […]
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Panasonic launches new Mobile Clinical Assistant
Panasonic has launched the latest version of its Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged tablet-style wireless handheld computer specifically designed for use by clinicians.
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Best Practice online
The BMJ is launching an online point-of-care decision support tool that aims to provide immediate access to expert opinion, guidelines and the latest evidence. Best Practice has been built for doctors and clinicians to use as they are working with patients. It aims to deliver information in “bite-size chunks” to people in settings such as […]
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Clinical Solutions gets a Mentor
Clinical Solutions has signed a three year deal with primary care IT supplier EMIS to integrate EMIS’s Mentor drug database into its decision support software. The deal means the Mentor Drug Database Module will be integrated into Clinical Solutions’ IntefleCS Face to Face software, providing access for clinicians working in urgent care centres, walk-in centres […]
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Heartlands rolls out JAC e-prescribing system
Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has started to roll out a JAC e-prescribing system across all three of its acute-care sites. The project, which JAC claims is the largest of its kind in the UK, will see company’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system deployed to cover 1,800 beds and all the […]
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Eclipse is phased out
Torex, the owner of the Eclipse pharmacy system, has announced that it is to dicontinue the development of the product and cease drug data updates with immediate effect. Eclipse will no longer seek compliance for Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service. It was the second pharmacy system to achieve Release 1 accreditation in 2005, when it […]
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Wikipedia can omit key drug information
New research warns that consumers who relay on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for drug information may be putting themselves at risk. The research compared the completeness of drug entries on 80 drugs to those on a dedicated, peer-reviewed drug data site, Medscape Drug Reference (MDR) The research in the December issue of the Annals of […]
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