East Kent cuts turn around times with SRC
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has been able to reduce cancer diagnosis times by deploying digital dictation with speech recognition from SRC. The new technology is allowing pathologists to dictate results in real-time. As a result, histology reporting turnaround times have been cut from a week to often the same day. Paul Williams, […]
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King’s College to install 50 self-service kiosks
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is to become the first in Europe to install patient self-service kiosks supplied by NCR. The touch-screen kiosks are designed to simplify checking-in and out procedures for patients. A total of 50 MediKiosks will initially be deployed this autumn in the London hospital’s dermatology, haematology, orthopedics, urology and general […]
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Bradford goes live with Lorenzo
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed that it has started rolling-out Lorenzo almost a year after it was initially expected to go-live.
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NHS Training for Innovation launched
The NHS technology training hub, THOTH, has been re-launched as NHS Training for Innovation and announced it is working on a programme of e-learning to help train health professionals to safely use different medical devices. Announcing the new name, Paul Vousden, managing director, said: “NHS Training for Innovation will fulfil a very important need – […]
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GPS tracking for dementia patients
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has announced it is trialling the use of GPS devices to track dementia patients. The GPS systems are aimed at prolonging the length of time people can spend living in their own homes and also to monitor patients when they are out and about. The trackers, which […]
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Rotherham picks Meditech for EPR
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract to US clinical software supplier Meditech to provide it with a new electronic patient record system.
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Southend secures email with Proofpoint
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out a secure email solution from Proofpoint across its 2,500 PCs. The move follows a review of IT in May 2008, which showed the trust needed to improve its email security to meet Department of Health guidelines introduced as a result of data leaks in the NHS. […]
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Data blindness
The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far better systems to capture patient experience.
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Alder Hey goes wireless with Xirrus
One of Europe’s biggest children’s hospitals has announced that it will be completely wireless within four months. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool started deploying Xirrus’ Wi-Fi Array three weeks ago in its clinical areas. It intends to provide 100% coverage, including lobbies and outside areas, by the summer. This should allow doctors, […]
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Next London Cerner go-live delayed until Autumn
The next deployment of Cerner Millennium in London will not occur until the autumn; more than a year after the last go-live in the capital plunged the Royal Free Hampstead Hospital NHS Trust into crisis.
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