Mid-Yorkshire earns £80,000 from 0844 number
A hospital trust has revealed that it has made more than £80,000 from use of a 0844 telephone number over the last two years. The Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals Trust was forced to publish its income from the revenue-sharing telephone number following a Freedom of information request made by its local newspaper. The income has been condemned […]
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Cornwall tracks theatre products digitally
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying a new patient-level resource management system from COA Solutions to help keep track of product expenditure and stock levels in its operating theatres. The system, which uses barcode scanning technology, will replace previous paper-based stock management processes, which had been considered costly and inefficient. The Patient Resource […]
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Platform for wearable health devices launched
Irish developer Realtime Technologies has launched a new hardware research platform called Shimmer, designed for wearable health sensing in both connected and wireless environments. Shimmer stands for Sensing Health with Intelligence, Modularity, Mobility, and Experimental Reusability, and uses Intel technology to help find new ways to monitor vital signs from devices worn by patients. Using […]
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New wireless monitoring patch unveiled
Prototype version of ST+D’s electrode patch A wireless electrode patch that can be worn by a patient and tracked from any internet connection in the world is being developed by vital signs monitoring specialist ST+D technology, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The patch is being trialled at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital, with a view to […]
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IMEC boosts wireless ECG patch
Flexible core of IMEC’s smart ECG patch. A new wireless patient monitoring ECG patch has been developed for cardiac monitoring by IMEC Belgium, an independent research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology. The innovative flexible ECG patch is intended to monitor single-lead ECG in individual’s daily-life conditions, providing new opportunities for cardiovascular disease management. The patch can […]
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Intel gets approval for telecare device
Intel has received market clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a new personal telehealth system.
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NHS informatics review set to stress continuity
As part of the next stage review of the health service will see the publication of the blueprint for NHS informatics, to accompany last week’s ten year blueprint for the health service ‘High Quality Care for All: The NHS Next Stage Review’. The accompanying informatics review matters as the Darzi direction of travel is all […]
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Aberdeen Royal Infirmary uses ExtraMed software
Screenshot of BEDS system from ExtraMed NHS Grampian is planning to roll out a real-time bed management system across its nine hospitals following a deployment at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The BEDS system from ExtraMed has replaced a paper-based system in which ward managers would monitor and report on the bed status of their ward twice-daily. […]
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BT and the NHS at 60
The NHS was born 60 years ago. Computers are a more recent invention but technology is about more than computers, as the history of BT’s involvement with the NHS shows.
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Israeli medical centre to roll out active RFID
European RFID specialist Wavetrend Technologies has signed a deal with the newly built Ashdod Medical Centre in Southern Israel, to instal active RFID ports across the building to monitor movements of patients and assets. Working in partnership with Isreali system integration company, Ardan Control Tech, Wavetrend will install an infrastructure of active RFID for asset […]
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