New medical students to face computer test
Many students applying to university to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude test as part of their course application. The UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), which is being developed by a consortium of universities with testing company Pearson VUE, will affect students applying to 24 medicalschools nationwide, […]
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Award for time-saving medical images system
An online system that has reduced the time taken to make clinical images available to consultants from four weeks to about four minutes has won a major award for the senior clinical photographer who developed it. Simon Dove, head of medical illustration at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital won the ‘Innovation in Service Development’ category of the first […]
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ID cards database could store medical records
Details of patients’ medical records could potentially appear on the ID card database if an amendment to the ID Cards Bill is passed, according to an international law firm specialising in IT. Pinsent Masons says on its website that the government has tabled an amendment which could be used to allow the ID card database to […]
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Cisco makes new medical connections
Cisco Systems Inc. has announced a series of new applications that are now available as part of its Medical Grade Network, providing new solutions to aid clinician communications and workflow. The new Cisco Clinical Connection Suite consists of four integrated clinical solutions – Nurse Call, Patient Monitoring, Location-Based Services and Collaborative Care – designed to […]
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New twist in medical records opt-out saga
The government ‘does not envisage any circumstances’ where a patient’s decision to have some or all of their health record deleted would lead to them being de-registered from the NHS, the Commons heard in a debate on medical records. Wycombe MP, Paul Goodman raised the issue in an adjournment debate focused on the case of […]
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Robot baby helps medical students train
A Florida-based company is manufacturing interactive baby mannequins containing software that will emulate the vital signs of a three-to-six-month old child, so that medical students can practise on them. The BabySIM (above), the latest offering from Medical Education Technologies (METI), is much more sophisticated than a children’s toy. Not only does it feature tears, drool, […]
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Carry your medical records on a USB drive
A biochemistry professor has developed a USB key chain so that people can carry around their own electronic medical records downloaded from their doctor’s record system. The MedInfo Chip (right), developed by Dr Carl Franzblau, chairman and professor of biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine, is essentially a key drive that incorporates all the […]
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PA calls for electronic tracking of medical devices
The Patients Association has called for the NHS to introduce modern electronic ‘data capture’ systems to enable individual medical devices and surgical instruments to be effectively tracked to improve patient safety. With many NHS trusts still using paper-based systems to record instrument usage and track devices both on site and through offsite sterilization facilities, the […]
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No single opt-out on medical records database
Patients will be unable to make a single request for their records not to be held on the NHS Care Records Service. Instead they will have to ask their details are not recorded onto the national medical records database each time they deal with the health service. Any patient who does not want their medical […]
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Electronic medical records top priority for US
US healthcare IT executives have named implementing a paperless electronic medical record (EMR) their top priority in the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS) leadership poll. Nearly two-thirds of healthcare IT executives said their organisation planned to implement an EMR in the next two years, according to the 16th annual HIMMS leadership survey. […]
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