EHI’s industry round up 22.12.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up includes news about the benefits that trusts are seeing from deploying new technology, launches and partnerships between leading healthcare technology companies. Trusts reaps service desk accreditation benefits The Primary Care Informatics Unit covering NHS Blackburn with Darwen and NHS East Lancashire says it has seen "tangible benefits" since […]
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EHI’s industry round up 30.11.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers news about system deployments, company partnerships, product launches and other developments in healthcare IT. Allocate Software launches expenses module Allocate Software has launched an expenses module to help ease the administrative burden for staff entering, approving and processing expense claims. Paul Scandrett, director of healthcare at Allocate said: […]
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Intel launches text reader
Intel has launched a handheld mobile reader that allows people with learning disabilities and those with poor vision to photograph text and have it read aloud to them digitally. The Intel Reader uses a high resolution camera to convert printed text into digital text and then reads it aloud while also showing it on a screen. It […]
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NHS Direct aims to become ‘web first’
NHS Direct aims to shift a ‘substantial amount’ of its work from the telephone to the web next year, its chief executive has revealed. Nick Chapman told E-Health Insider Live ‘09 that it aims to become a ‘web first’ organisation to deliver more value for money to the NHS, but that this would be a […]
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Private medical records offered for sale
Medical records of patients treated at a private British hospital, The London Clinic, have been illegally sold to undercover investigators. The revelations were made in ITV’s Tonight Programme report, Health Records For Sale, broadcast last night. The programme reported that hundreds of files containing details of patients’ conditions, home addresses and dates of birth were […]
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Unite calls for better IT training
Health visitors believe they are not getting enough IT training on their local electronic patient record systems, according to a union survey. A poll of 530 health visitors and school nurses conducted by Unite/Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association found that 310 had access to local electronic patient record and 92% of those had received […]
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Vet centre
Dr Adam Darkins explains to Neil Versel why telehealth is key to the future of the Veterans Health Administration.
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System C buys Scottish web developer
System C Healthcare, a UK provider of health software and services to the healthcare sector, has acquired Conscia Enterprise Systems for up to £800,000. The deal is the latest in a string of acquisitions by System C, which in July bought social care software specialist Liquid Logic for £14.2m. Glasgow-based Conscia specialises in internet services […]
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