Tablet PC Vs PDA – The Debate Continues (Part 3)
Over the past month E-Health Insider readers have debated the relative merits of PDAs and Tablet PCs in healthcare. This week we publish two further perspectives, in a debate that appears more timely than ever with the announcement of the merger between iSoft and Torex. Which device will the new merged health IT giant be […]
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PDAs or Tablet PCs? – The debate continues…
Last week Dr Andrew Harrison wrote about his experience of using a Tablet PC on the wards – The Tablet PC on Test . In response Steve Garrington, CEO of Torex Health, argued the case in favour of PDAs as the best mobile devices for clinicians – Open Source – Tablet PCs wrong for Doctors […]
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Open Source: Tablet PCs Wrong for Doctors – Steve Garrington, CEO Torex Health
Last week hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, shared his experience of testing a Tablet PC on the wards. Steve Garrington, chief executive of Torex Health, uses our Open Source column to respond and argues the case for PDAs rather than Tablet PCs for clinicians. I found Andrew Harrison’s piece on his testing of a Tablet PC […]
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Yakult to Sponsor Text Appointment Reminders
Enpocket, a provider of mobile media and technology services, has announced that bio-yoghurt drink brand Yakult has become the first sponsor to sign up for a new sponsored NHS appointment reminder service using text messages. The development follows initial trials of a text message appointment reminder service at Homerton Hospital that began in 2002 (Homerton […]
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Open Source: ‘Rescue Community Nurses from IT Exile’
In the second of our new ‘Open Source’ columns Mark Reynolds, managing director of TopCall UK argues for community nurses to be urgently provided with modern IT tools to end their ‘communications exile’. According to research by Intel, Hewlett Packard and Sendmail, the mobile nursing community is one of the most ostracised of all British […]
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IT Vital to Tackle Health Staff Shortages
A major new US health IT survey suggests that new technology has significant potential to help mitigate the serious staff shortages faced by healthcare providers. The same survey also stressed the importance of re-evaluating workflow to realise the benefits from any IT implementation. Electronic medical records, point of care technologies and mobile and wireless communications […]
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Poor IT Placing Patients at Risk Junior Doctors Warn
Improved communications systems that reflect the radically changed working practices in hospitals are vital to guarantee patient safety, a new report by the BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee concludes. The report, ‘Making IT work for Junior Doctors’, produced to identify problems and solutions to better inform and influence the development of the National Programme for IT […]
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The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say
At HC2003 NHS IT director-general Richard Granger said that he wanted a debate about whether there were viable alternatives to the direction of travel set out by the National Programme. Though he made clear that he believed the route set out was the best way to ensure delivery, he added it was not too late […]
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Texting Temps Could Help Trusts Fill Vacant Shifts
Software that enables employers to send text messages to temporary staff needed for shifts has been launched by SkillsFlow. The development is recent addition of the company’s SkillsBid module which is designed to help organisations manage temporary and shift vacancies, offering work directly to bank staff and to competing agencies.The overall aim is to help […]
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Technologies Open Up New Consultation Possibilities
The importance of public services embracing new technology in their consultations with users and citizens is emphasised in a new report from the Audit Commission. The report, Connecting with Users and Citizens says, “In our discussions with service providers, those who used a wider choice of approaches and techniques were more likely to see themselves […]
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