Winners announced in BT e-Health Insider Awards
Awards for some of the UK?s most outstanding health IT projects and people were announced at the gala BT e-Health Awards ceremony in London last night.
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Lesson from history
A radio programme looked back at the progress of the National Programme for IT. Linda Davidson tuned in.
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Vote for your Healthcare ICT Champion
The search is on for your Healthcare ICT Champion of 2007. This special category of the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2007, sponsored by Microsoft, invites readers to vote for the individual they see as being most worthy of the title. Nominations were invited earlier this year and six people agreed to let their names go […]
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Forces medical records system ready to roll out
Derek Twiggs meets staff at RAP Following successful pilots, the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) is due to be deployed progressively around military bases in the UK and abroad by August next year. The DMICP, developed by LogicaCMG, will allow instant access to military personnel’s health history from any enabled system, in a field […]
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60 second interview: Jonathan Kay
In our latest 60 second interview Jonathan Kay, Prof. of Health Informatics at City University, answers EHI’s questions.
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iSoft chosen as reseller of mobile clinical assistant
Motion Computing have chosen iSoft to be the first UK-based solution reseller for the C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged and washable tablet-PC style device specifically designed to provide doctors and nurses with access to updated patient records and the ability to document a patient’s condition. Incorporating Intel’s latest wireless technology the MCA features a […]
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BT encourages trusts to use its conferencing service
Working across the UK health sector BT is helping to save millions of pounds each year as more and more trust sign up to conferencing solutions, which will further be enhanced by Video Conferencing soon to be available over the Health Service network. BT Conferencing is BT’s specialist service for the delivery of robust, reliable […]
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Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out
The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at two GP practices in Bolton, in the north-west of England. Approximately 14,500 patients will have a summary of the GP record, containing details of name, address, medication history, serious illnesses and allergies, uploaded to a […]
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Bradford to be first ex-Accenture acute trust to go live
The first acute trust in the two NHS clusters that Computer Sciences Corporation officially took over from Accenture in January has told E-Health Insider it is confident it will go live with a new patient administration system by this April. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has told E-Health Insider that it is on track […]
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Medical Tablet PC launched by Intel
Intel, Motion Computing and NHS Connecting for Health have announced the launch of a new mobile computing device, designed from the ground up for use by clinicians in hospital and community environments. The Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) is lightweight rugged tablet PC with a built in carrying handle designed to withstand the knocks and spills […]
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