Homes smart enough to talk
The University of Bath has showcased a ‘smart’ home for people with dementia at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Pioneers 09 exhibition. The ‘smart’ homes are designed to closely monitor residents’ movements and actions, allowing them to live more independently. The system has voice prompts that can be set up by family members […]
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Teenage clicks
At last year’s BT e-Health Insider awards, NHS Choices won the best use of ICT in patient and citizen involvement category, sponsored by Fujitsu, for a new media sexual health initiative in the Humber region.
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Patient and citizen involvement
The runners up in the best use of ICT in patient and citizen involvement category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards were Renal Patient View and an emergency contraception service piloted by NHS Direct.
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Bulgaria launches electronic records
Bulgaria has launched a national health portal as the entry point to its first electronic health records. The portal, developed by InterComponentWare (ICW), will give state administration employees access to a modern, electronic version of the paper-based Personal Ambulatory Book that is used to keep track of medical appointments. The Electronic Personal Ambulatory Book has been […]
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InterQual to manage care across Rotherham
Rotherham Health and Social Care Economy Partnership is deploying an evidence-based decision support and care management system developed and widely-used in the US. The partnership between Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Rotherham, and Rotherham Social Services was developed in July 2008, to meet national imperatives to use health services appropriately. It is now rolling out […]
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NHS Pathways go national
The Department of Health has given ambulance services approval to use NHS Pathways to offer alternative services to callers who do not need an ambulance response. The move means that ambulance services can now choose to train 999 operators to use the system, which allows them to make immediate referrals to local services that may […]
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SCR access widens again
Community pharmacists, end of life care teams and ambulance staff will gain access to the Summary Care Record in a series of pilot projects over the next few months, NHS Connecting for Health has revealed. The expansion in the types of NHS staff who can access the SCR will be piloted in early adopter primary […]
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Commission calls for 112 to become multilingual
The European Commission has called for the 112, the common European emergency number, to become multilingual. Since December 2008, EU citizens can contact emergency services from anywhere in the European Union by dialing 112, the EU-wide emergency number, free of charge from both fixed and mobile phones. However, research shows that only one in four […]
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Royal Free boss says CRS problems cost £10m
The boss of the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has blamed the new NHS electronic medical records system – the flagship project of the £12.7 billion NHS IT programme – for causing "heartache and hard work". Andrew Way, chief executive at the Royal Free, said technical problems had cost the trust £10m, leaving it unable […]
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Cerner gets green light in London
NHS London and the NHS London Programme for IT have given the green light to further Cerner deployments in the capital.
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