Scottish board builds shared care record
NHS Dumfries and Galloway is creating an electronic shared care record to integrate primary and secondary care data.
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Scots assess i-device security
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has commissioned a security assessment of whether iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches are secure and suitable to be used within the hospital environment, ahead of trying a handover app from Cambric Systems.
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Dumfries deploys video conferencing
NHS Dumfries and Galloway is expecting to save up to 8,000 hours a year in travel time after going live with a video conferencing system from Tandberg. The system, which was supplied though the GCAT procurement scheme, cost £70,000 and is expected to save 4,000-8,000 hours of the time that consultants spend travelling, with additional […]
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Dumfries and Galloway secures USB sticks
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has held a USB stick amnesty for staff and issued 1,100 SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise USB flash drives in return, in order to secure patient information. Andrew Turner, information infrastructure manager at NHS Dumfries and Galloway, told E-Health Insider: “The trust has held an amnesty so that staff could bring in old […]
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Scotland invests in telehealthcare
Scotland has launched its biggest telehealthcare project alongside 16 other e-health initiatives that will be backed by £1.6m of investment. NHS Lothian and the Scottish Government are to jointly fund a £700,000 large scale telehealth trial that will cover 400 patients with long term conditions, using Intel’s Health Guide. In addition, the government and Atos […]
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NHS Scotland ready for national PACS roll out
The Scottish Executive has announced that national deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) across Scotland will begin this month after successful pilots in hospitals across Glasgow and Dumfries and Galloway. Over the next two years every hospital in Scotland will receive a new system from Carestream Health [formerly Kodak Health], which will […]
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ExtraMed secure £500,000 investment
Scottish based healthcare IT software developers ExtraMed have secured £500,000 of investment to further develop products for the NHS market. The Falkirk-based company specialise in developing and implementing innovative hospital and patient management systems and have secured an investment package including £250,000 from the Sigma Innovation Fund, £100,000 from Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Seed Fund and […]
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Appointment reminders mistaken for ‘scam’
A Scottish scheme using automated calling to contact patients and remind them of their hospital appointments has been withdrawn after just two days because patients thought the calls were a scam. The project in NHS Dumfries and Galloway used an automated system to phone patients the night before their appointment and leave a recorded message […]
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Menopause website wins information award
A website written by clinicians to help women through the menopause has come first prize in the Patient Information Website category in the BMA Medical Book Competition Awards 2004. Menopause Matters (www.menopausematters.co.uk) was set up by Dr Heather Currie, associate specialist gynaecologist and obstetrician, at the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, and run by her […]
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