GPS patient tracking launched in Switzerland
Aerotel Medical Systems, a specialist in mobile and home-based telemedicine and telecare solutions, has partnered with GEBOA SA, to launch Aerotel’s GeoSKeeper GPS personal location system in Switzerland.
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Germany invests €125m in ambient care
The German national ministry of research has announced a major funding program for ambient assisted living.
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Credit crunch hits UK and US hospitals
Hospitals in the US and UK are beginning to struggle to raise the funds they need for capital investment in infrastructure and Information technology projects. In the US the result is being seen in hospitals shelving planned investments in facilities and information technology. In the UK an internal memo from the National Health Service reveals […]
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German health minister praises regional EPR project
The city of Bottrop, North Rhine Westphalia, has launched a private electronic patient record project that utilises the new German healthcare smartcard for patient identification. Knappschaft, one of the biggest health insurance companies in Germany, is co-ordinating the project which will run for three years with a budget of €5.6m. If successful, it will be […]
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Airwave on tube but few ambulances
The Airwave radio network has been rolled out on the London Underground and has been presented as a step forward for the troubled digital communications project.
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Barts virus caused ‘major internal incident’
Last November’s Mytob worm attack on the network of Barts and the London NHS Trust led to its ‘major internal incident’ plan being activated, with some ambulances redirected from A&E. The network failure was one of the most severe known to have occurred at an NHS hospital trust. To clean and restore the infected network, Barts […]
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On the right pathway
The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health looks at the work of the award winning NHS Pathways team.
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Fast followers to lead SCR roll out
Seventeen primary care trusts are due to begin implementing the Summary Care Record before 1 April as part of a ‘fast follower’ group that will lead the national roll-out of the SCR.
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HL7 releases child health EHR standard
Health Level Seven (HL7), the healthcare IT standards development organisation, has released the first standard specifying the key functional requirements for child healthcare in an electronic health record (EHR) system. The HL7 child health functional profile for EHR systems, builds on the HL7 EHR system functional model. It is the first for children approved by […]
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