An app to fly by
An app to make the standard operating procedures of Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service available to clinicians in the air won the mobile category of last year’s EHI Awards. Emma Dent reports.
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Imperial sticks it to Windows
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is to deploy Windows To Go – a version of the new Windows 8 operating system on a USB stick.
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30 apps to collect CQUIN data
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust will use 30 apps to collect patient data on the move for the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation framework.
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Salford buys second mobile x-ray unit
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has ordered a second Carestream DRX-Revolution mobile x-ray unit.
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Can iPads, tablets and smartphones get radiology mobile? Armed with just a (paper) notePad, Paul Curran went in search of opinions.
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Web on the go
Cardiff trust gets staff mobile
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has rolled out more than 600 portable devices to staff to update their electronic patient records on the move.
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Another view: Neil Paul
Our GP columnist hasn’t seen a ‘game changing’ bit of IT kit recently, but wonders if Emis mobile may be the next big thing.
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Cameron announces £100m nurse tech fund
Prime Minister David Cameron announced he will give £100m in funding for nurses and midwives to spend on new mobile technology like digital pens.
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GPs ‘key’ to more mobile health
GPs and new clinical commissioning groups are key to the deployment of more mobile health systems, the European Connected Health Alliance says.
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