GPs refuse to support electronic referrals over patient care fears
Kent Local Medical Committee (LMC) has written an open letter to NHS Digital and a number of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) it will not support the switch off of paper referral systems
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Kent trusts still using HSS RIS
Four Kent trusts experiencing problems with a new radiology information system from GE Healthcare are continuing to use a lookup version of their legacy HSS RIS.
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Second Kent trust reports RIS problems
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is experiencing severe difficulties with a new radiology information system from GE Healthcare.
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Kent community gets advanced
Kent and Medway trusts tender for PACS
A group of Kent and Medway trusts have formed a collaboration to tender for PACS/RIS as the end of the national digital imaging contracts draws closer.
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Telehealth ‘could save county £7.5m’
A pioneering telehealth project has shown that Kent could save £7.5m a year by using assistive technology. A report published this month on the Kent Telehealth Pilot, which ran from 2005-2007 and covered 250 patients, says that use of telehealth saved an average of £1,878 per patient in 2006-7. The figure is based on reduced […]
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Telehealth put on the (Google) map
More than a third of primary care trusts are involved with telehealth programmes, according to the Department of Health‘s Telecare Local Integrated Network. The telecare LIN has created a Google map for PCT telehealth, which shows which areas have begun some form of remote monitoring programme. The network says more than a third of PCTs are […]
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East Kent saves £80,000 with SSO
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it has saved £80,000 by implementing Single Sign On technology from Imprivata. The Imprivata OneSign software allows more than 7,000 users at the trust to connect to different applications via a single point of secure authentication. This solution was procured by tender and awarded to BMS, […]
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UK telehealth trials missing minorities
Concerns have been raised that the UK’s biggest ever trial of telehealth technologies is excluding non-English speaking people, despite the promises of social inclusion. A conference this week heard that non-English speakers and people without phones are often unable to benefit from the large-scale pilots now being developed. The Department of Health’s Whole System Demonstrator […]
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East Kent cuts turn around times with SRC
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has been able to reduce cancer diagnosis times by deploying digital dictation with speech recognition from SRC. The new technology is allowing pathologists to dictate results in real-time. As a result, histology reporting turnaround times have been cut from a week to often the same day. Paul Williams, […]
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