EHI’s industry round up 11.09.2009
This edition of E-Health Insider’s industry round-up covers partnerships and new product launches in the healthcare IT market and deployments in the NHS.
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Birmingham uses Websense
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it will implement a complete information protection solution from Websense. The trust will roll-out Websense’s Essential Information Protection portfolio to create an integrated policy-based IT security platform to secure data and protect against Web 2.0 threats from sites such as Twitter. The solution, which was purchased for […]
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Labour’s O’Brien: NHS safe in our hands
Junior health minister Mike O’Brien has claimed that the NHS is “safe in our hands” and that the government will “focus on quality and innovation” to help it through the financial crunch.
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Personal view: Tim Benson
Standards guru Tim Benson argues that understanding health interoperability, HL7 and SNOMED CT will become increasingly important in this taster of his new book.
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In defence of the Spine
Ewan Davis surprises himself by setting out the case in defence of the NHS Spine. He argues that if we didn’t have it, we’d have to invent it.
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DH launches hospital comparison site
The Department of Health has launched a new comparison element to the NHS Choices website, which allows patients to compare hospitals on indicators from car parking to mortality rates. The service provides a web-based score card to help patients choose the hospital most suited to their needs. It works in a similar way to other internet […]
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Nottinghamshire implements VoIP
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has announced that it has completed the implementation of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform from Proximity Communications. Previously the trust, a specialist in treating patients with mental health and learning disabilities, ran different telephony systems at various sites, which became complex and costly. Martin Harrison, telecoms project manager at […]
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Enquire within
NHS Evidence is a new route to guidance and best practice. Daloni Carlisle reports on the site and the technology behind it.
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Davis: privatising records ‘dangerous’
Former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial IT companies as “naïve” and “dangerous.” Writing in The Times yesterday, the MP for Haltemprice and Howden said the first time he read about the policy his “heart sank.” “The policy described was so naïve, […]
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FluSurvey surveillance website launched
A website that will provide up-to-date information and surveillance on swine flu has been launched by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The LSHTM together with the Health Protection Agency set up the new site to allow visitors to access information on the transmission, symptoms and receive advice about swine flu as […]
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