Academics set up wiki to monitor NHS IT
The 23 academics who wrote to Parliament outlining their concerns about the progress of the National Programme for IT have set up a wiki to track media reports and act as a resource for NHS IT. The NHS 23 wiki, available at http://editthis.info/nhs_it_info/, features links to articles tracking problems with various suppliers and coverage of […]
News
Telehealth must get smarter, says report
A new report calling for ‘more intelligence at the core of healthcare IT systems’ claims that while the current e-health model supports the collection of a limited range of vital signs data, they are not clever enough to carry out vital patient diagnosis. Wireless technology firm Wireless Healthcare claims telehealth devices lack the intelligence to […]
News
Metal medicine
E-Health Insider looks at the continuing work into robotics in healthcare being carried out by Imperial College, London.
Feature
UK telehealth firm gains EU recognition
The Health-eLife project, which uses doc@HOME technology from UK-based telehealth services firm Docobo, has been awarded ‘project of the month’ status by the EU. The project has been supported by the EU eTen initiative, designed to promote the deployment of network-based services across Europe. Each month the EU looks at different projects connected to the eTen […]
News
NI to link barcodes on prescriptions to EPRs
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland has announced it has signed a £6.8m contract with Hewlett Packard to provide it with bar-coded prescriptions in an effort to counter fraud. The new Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System (EPES) will be rolled out over the next two years. Paper prescriptions will […]
News
City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the specification and development of a new module by US vendor, Meditech, which has been extensively anglicised for the UK, plus a programme of business change by clinical staff. David Miller, business manager for pharmacy at […]
News
Heart of England procures independently on PACS
Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust in Birmingham has gone outside the nationally negotiated NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) contract to tender for a full digital imaging solution comprising picture archive and communications system (PACS). Earlier this month the trust has placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for PACS, […]
News
Wales to receive Map of Medicine
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT programme, has announced that it has secured Map of Medicine, a web-based clinical pathways and knowledge sharing tool, for deployment across Wales. The tool can be used by healthcare professionals to view clinical pathways across several disciplines, including A&E, mental health and palliative care. Managers and commissioners can use […]
News
Space programme
One of the most intriguing aspects of the NHS IT programme is the HealthSpace project, the online patient portal. Daloni Carlisle reports on how the patient access project is progressing.
Feature
Bluetooth ID badge handwashing monitor proposed
A team of academics, clinicians and computer scientists have developed a system that uses a Bluetooth-based wearable ID tag to monitor and log whether staff and vistors on an intensive care ward have washed their hands. The as-yet unnamed system was developed by clinicians at the University of Manchester and computer scientists at the University […]
News