How do you do IT?
Liverpool has pioneered information sharing in healthcare, but now it has a strategy to take things to a whole new level. Lis Evenstad reports from the annual iLinks conference.
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Sharing and caring
Information sharing to support more integrated health and social care is back on the agenda. But what approaches are healthcare communities taking? And what works? Lis Evenstad and Lyn Whitfield report.
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Health IT apprenticeship launched
The City of Liverpool College and Health Academy North West have launched a health informatics cadet apprenticeship.
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Liverpool aims for 1,000 on telehealth
Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust aims to have 1,000 telehealth patients within the next two years.
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Liverpool pilots eRedbook
Nearly 100 Liverpool parents are piloting a digital version of the Redbook health record for children.
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Liverpool house gets smart
A Smarthouse showcasing gadgets that can drain an overflowing bath or warn family members that a relative has had a fall will be on show at the iLinks Innovation event in Liverpool this week.
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Speech therapy on Galaxy quest
Families in Liverpool are being given tablet computers with wireless communications to “revolutionise” the way they receive speech therapy.
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MIG e-discharge for 1.1m NW patients
Healthcare Gateway has won contracts with NHS trusts in Cumbria and Merseyside that will enable 1.1m GPs to receive hospital discharge summaries via the Medical Interoperability Gateway.
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‘I’m Mobile’ – first app deployed
Informatics Merseyside has deployed its first bespoke app to a community health provider as part of its ‘I’m Mobile’ programme.
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Liverpool builds Feel Good Factory
Liverpool Primary Care Trust has been awarded a Technology Strategy Board grant of £7.7m to develop an independent living programme for the elderly using telehealth, as part of the DALLAS programme.
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