60 second interview: Peter Knight
In the first in a new series of 60 second interviews with NHS IT leaders, Joe Fernandez speaks to Peter Knight from Winchester & Eastleigh NHS Trust.
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Liverpool Women’s get WiFi ticket to roam
Liverpool women’s has become the latest trust to become a wireless hotspot. Joe Fernandez looks at the benefits of being able to roam and treat.
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Laptop holding trust payroll data stolen
A laptop has been stolen from the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, which contains personal and financial information on the trust’s 10,000 staff. The computer had payroll data on all of the trust’s employees and was stolen from locked and alarmed premises on 1 May. In a statement, the trust told E-Health Insider: “We can […]
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Hospital mobile phone blanket bans criticised
Both the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and Parliament’s Health Select Committee have said that there are no technical reasons why mobile phones should be banned outright from hospitals. The MHRA, the government agency responsible for medical safety, issued a release after continuing enquiries from the public, patients and staff about the status of […]
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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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Two trusts to use new Eclipse maternity system
Bradford Teaching Hospitals and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trusts are poised to start implementing a new maternity information system which brings together care records and information from fetal monitoring. The system, Eclipse MIS, has been developed by Huntleigh Healthcare, makers of non-invasive healthcare devices, and Care Records, a company specialising in clinical records. Care Records was bought recently […]
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European ‘Connect-a-thon’ tests interoperability
Over 60 healthcare software companies and organisations from all over the world have gathered together in Spain to test the interoperability of their systems. A total of 700 combinations of system and 1600 tests were carried out over four days in Barcelona in a yearly European ‘Connect-a-thon’, organised by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise in Europe […]
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Revamped clinical system for stoma nurses launched
Satellite navigation, voice recognition and a group calendar all feature in a newly-revamped patient management system devised for specialist stoma nurses. The system, named Mime, was unveiled last week to stoma nurses at a conference in Cheshire hosted by manufacturer, Coloplast, which developed it. The firm, one of the main suppliers of ostomy equipment, has […]
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Patient records on spine to be accessed via PDA
Oracle, who are providing infrastructure for the NPfIT for the NHS data spine, have signed a partnership deal with Medify Solutions, a based mobile services provider based near Newbury, to provide the ability to access patient records over PDAs. The MedifyRemote system will not just allow access to records on the data spine, but theoretically […]
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Plymouth moves to IP telephony
NHS organisations in Plymouth are beginning the roll-out of one of the largest Internet Protocol (IP)-based telephone implementations yet seen in the NHS, in a move that should deliver £600,000 in savings. The Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHNT) and Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust have signed a ten-year £1.2 million deal with Mitel and HP […]
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