Accelerating digital transformation in health and social care with iPad
Using Apple technology, combined with healthcare-specific apps and value-added services, Academia help deliver on some of the most important outcomes healthcare providers want to achieve, including better patient experiences and reduced staff workloads.
Infrastructure
iPads rolled out to ambulance staff in South East Coast
iPads will be deployed to more than 200 paramedics in Kent to help them manage and send patient electronic information remotely.
Clinical Software
Manchester student nurses swap paper charts for Patientrack
Student nurses in Manchester are being taught to capture bedside observations on an iPad, using the Patientrack system.
Clinical Software
Ambulance trust uses forms on iPads
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is working with Kainos to develop a version of its Evolve patient record software for ambulance services, and piloting the use of iPads to let paramedics complete forms to add to the system.
Clinical Software
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Camden takes ‘quantum leap’ with iPads
Staff at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust will access patient records on iPads following the introduction of a new electronic patient record system in September.
Infrastructure
Another view: mind the gap
GP Neil Paul wonders why an “implementation gap” so often opens up between a simple idea and actually doing it; whether that’s handing out tablet computers, or providing remote access to records and systems.
Feature
Another view: just do IT
GP Neil Paul says it’s time to stop talking about big data and tech funds and do something useful – like give every district nurse in the country an iPad.
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Stockport evolves EDM use
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has expanded its deployment of the Kainos Evolve electronic document and records management system, and plans to introduce an iPad-specific version.
News
iPad forms capture Rheumatic data
The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases NHS Foundation Trust is expanding its use of iPad-based patient questionnaires, and looking at making them available to other trusts.
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