Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children to install Vocera
Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children is to install the Vocera hands-free wireless voice communication system. The new system, which provides staff with hands free voice communication using a simple badge device, will form part of the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children’s (RBHSC’s) new wireless voice and data infrastructure. Staff currently use a range […]
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Patient surveys launched into hospital call costs
A national campaign to discover the views of patients and visitors hospital bedside television and telephone services has been launched by the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health. The campaign, which is being undertaken by Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Forums across England, will for the first time give consumers of these […]
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Ofcom calls for review of hospital phone charges
A review group is to be set up to look at hospital bedside telephone and entertainment services and see whether these can be provided without controversial high charges for incoming calls to patients. Ofcom, the communications watchdog, recommended that the review should be conducted by the Department of Health following its own six month investigation […]
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Hemel explosion hits Northgate hospital customers
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, and the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, London, were was working on paper this week after the company that manages their hosted patient administration services suffered serious damage in Sunday’s explosion in Hemel Hempstead (below). It is understood that a total of five hospitals use Northgate’s services and that they have reverted […]
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EU hospital software market ‘worth £1bn by 2010’
The European market in hospital administration systems will be worth £1.2bn by 2010, according to research undertaken by consulting company Frost & Sullivan, as hospitals across the continent realise they must lay the foundations for electronic health records, PACS and other e-health systems. The reason for the growth in the sector is that hospitals are […]
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Essex hospital installs teleradiology system
Oldchurch Hospital part of Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust, Essex, is installing a teleradiology system in its neurology and radiology departments which will receive images transferred over NHSnet from local sites. The LifeWeb OnNet system, supplied by Ferrania, will replace the existing technology used by the trust and will allow images to be stored […]
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Moorfields Eye Hospital goes for virtual storage
Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have installed a virtual storage server that allows them to add extra hardware and storage facilities seamlessly and allow data used by several sites to be backed up in one central location. The hospital, which keeps a large number of images, electronic patient records and patient demographic and staff details […]
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Birmingham hospital upgrades servers for NPfIT
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has installed new servers and support infrastructure in order to pave the way for the National Programme for IT. Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, a Dell EMC CX700 storage area network (SAN) and a number of Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers were installed at the hospital, which has 6,500 employees. Peter […]
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Wireless LAN phone can survive hospital environment
A US-based company has developed a ‘rugged’ wireless phone specifically for the UK wireless healthcare market that can survive being dropped several stories and having fluid spilled over it. The NetLink h340 (right), manufactured by Colorado-based SpectraLink, is designed to work over low-power hospital wireless LANs, integrate into the main hospital switchboard, and also run […]
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Computer access for hospital doctors poor, say BMA
Some hospital doctors are expressing concerns that they do not have enough access to computers and e-mail to do their work, raising problems of patient confidentiality as many terminals are situated in public areas or have multiple users. The claim comes as part of a motion put forward today at the British Medical Association’s Staff […]
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