Tablet tests
How did three E-Health Insider readers get on with new tablet PCs in their work? A GP, a dermatologist and an EPR manager review the Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook P1510.
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Kent and Medway trusts select McKesson child health
A consortium of acute and primary care trusts across Kent and Medway strategic health authority have selected McKesson’s CarePlus child health IT system to provide a new single shared solution. McKesson’s CarePlus system will provide the NHS organisations with one integrated database, shared central procedures for child healthcare delivery and new interfaces with community-based child […]
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Students trial Mentor as teaching aid
Pharmacy students at Liverpool’s John Moores University (JMU) will be the first in the country to use the Mentor decision and knowledge support tool from primary care software supplier EMIS. The Mentor system, already available to 55% of GPs in England, will be trialled as a teaching and reference aid by students and lecturers at JMU’s […]
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Virtual healthcare research institute launched
A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in Healthcare Practice (VIRIHP). Members will work together via online discussion boards, email and telephone and video conferencing in addition to conventional face-to-face meetings twice a year. One of the institute’s objectives will be to “develop […]
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Speech recognition helps King’s meet cancer target
Speech recognition technology has helped produce a 50% reduction in diagnostic reporting times according to a report of a recent cancer treatment trial at King’s College Hospital, London. The trial, conducted by the South East London Cancer Network, was designed to find a solution that would reduce report creation times to meet NHS waiting time […]
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PDAs beat pagers for doctor response times, says study
A study published in the open-access journal BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making has revealed that surgeons at a London hospital whose pagers were replaced with PDAs combined with mobile phones responded to calls more quickly, improving communication between clinicians. A team of surgeons at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, had their pagers replaced with Palm […]
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Europe-wide heart monitoring trial shows promise
The organisers of a recently completed pan-European trial aimed at finding out if telecare can be an effective tool in monitoring patients with chronic heart disease have called the project a success. Eleven centres in three countries, England, Poland and Italy, participated in the Heart Failure in Hospital and Home (HHH) trial, which was supported […]
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Telecare specialist Tunstall bought in £225m deal
Tunstall, the specialist in personal and home telecare, has been acquired by private equity firm Bridgepoint from Hg Capital in a deal worth a total of £225m. In a simultaneous deal Tunstall has acquired Attendo Response and Attendo Systems, a market-leader in Scandinavian telecare solutions. The acquisition will create a group with combined annual sales […]
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Hospital e-mail filter can weed out drug spam
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS trust has installed a spam e-mail filter which the manufacturers say is sophisticated enough to tell genuine medical e-mails from pharmaceutical spam. The Messaging Security Gateway MLX system, supplied by Proofpoint, examines the structure and content of all emails that arrive on the hospital trust’s servers, and flags them as spam if […]
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This time it’s personal
Why do we need electronic health records, anyway? Gerry Yantis and Manuel Lowenhaupt of CapGemini argue that the challenges faced in implementing them shouldn’t detract from their importance.
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