North-west GPs to view test results over NHSnet
GPs in the Liverpool area will be able to see the pathology and radiology results of their patients over NHSnet, thanks to the implementation of browser-based access to test results. The Review software, provided by Indigo 4, was installed across Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust, making the total number of trusts in the north-west running the […]
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‘ID card’ devices to protect lone NHS staff
NHS staff working alone in the community are to be issued with mobile communication devices designed to help them call for help discreetly if they are in danger. The device chosen is the Identicom made by South Yorkshire suppliers, Connexion2. It looks like a standard ID card and can be clipped on clothing or worn […]
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E-prescribing benefits flow for Liverpool hospital
Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust has announced the completion of e-prescribing in all but one of its in-patient clinical areas. Only the neonatal unit remains to be covered by the Meditech EP system, built with technology partners FileTek UK. The system provides total integration between the pharmacy stock system, patient prescriptions and other patient-based Meditech […]
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University Hospital Aintree wins pharmacy IT award
The pharmacy department at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool has won the 2004 First DataBank Guild of Healthcare Pharmacist Information Technology Award for its effective electronic transfer of discharge prescriptions pilot. The University Hospital Aintree pharmacy department was chosen for its development of a system to transfer patient discharge information securely and quickly between the hospital […]
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Bedvacs online care home service launched in Edinburgh
Online care home vacancy service Bedvacs has announced that it has launched in Scotland with the launch of Bedvacs in Edinburgh. Bedvacs is an online bed availability service, designed to make it easier for care managers and social care staff to quickly find suitable residential care places for elderly clients. Care managers and social workers […]
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E-prescribing gets underway at Countess of Chester
A successful pilot for FileTek UK’s Meditech electronic prescribing (EP) system at the Countess of Chester Hospital, Cheshire, has opened the way for a full 12 -18 month roll-out of the system starting in early 2004. FileTek says that the system provides total integration between pharmacy stock system and the other patient-based Meditech modules, […]
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Liverpool hospitals praised for “get well soon” e-mails
A scheme which enables friends and relatives to send e-mail greetings to in-patients in the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals has been praised by health minister, John Hutton. Hutton described the email service as an “innovative scheme” during his address to a conference in Birmingham this week about the NHS information portal, www.nhs.uk. He […]
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Healthcare IT and Devolution
The health services in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were detached from the English mother ship as part of devolution. This can be seen in terms of policies: in this week’s elections for the Welsh Assembly, Labour promised free prescriptions if it regained power. But it also means that IT is procured by each nation, […]
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Early Warning System for Epidemics Launched
British health IT firm ComMedica has added a new module to its PIRILIS clinical information system that uses advanced algorithms to analyse data in order to predict the threat of epidemics such as influenza, or even epidemics caused by bioterrorism. ComMedica says the software addition will allow hospitals to more easily and quickly locate domestic […]
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