Ready for liftoff
The MOD is about to announce its final plans for electronic health records in the military. Jon Hoeksma looks at progress so far.
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COPD in Carlisle
Wendy McLellan of Tunstall explains how a telecare project for COPD in Carlisle is helping keep reduce costs through proactive patient management.
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Birmingham and Solihull extends patient RFID tagging
Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it is to further expand its trial of tagging surgical patients with RFID wristbands. E-Health Insider reported in October 2004 the trials of a tagging system in the ENT department of the Heart of England trust, then called Birmingham Heartlands and Solihill NHS Trust. Patients arriving […]
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Robot revolution
Colin Jervis, director of Kinetic Consulting, looks at how robots are being used on wards and in operating theatres in both the UK and Japan.
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CfH keeps fingers crossed on spine
Despite assurances from NHS Connecting for Health last week that the problems with the Spine over the past two weeks have been resolved, guidance issued yesterday indicates the situation remains somewhat less certain. A 4 January briefing issued by the CfH Choose and Book team on the problems with Choose and Book, stemming from technical problems […]
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IT has critical role in patient safety, says watchdog
Public service watchdog, the National Audit Office, has underlined the key role IT should play in improving patient safety not only in avoiding medication errors but in supporting audit and providing information to professionals. An NAO report published today identifies medication errors, record documentation errors and communication failures as leading causes of incidents in which […]
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Microsoft claims SharePoint success in NHS
Microsoft has announced that the number of users of its SharePoint collaboration and filesharing technology in the NHS has increased 25-fold since it signed an enterprise-wide agreement with Connecting for Health. The software, which became heavily discounted to NHS users in May 2004 as part of a wider enterprise-wide agreement, allows organisations to share and […]
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Mobile phone transmits your ECG
Engineers at Loughborough University have devised a mobile phone that easily receive, collate and send a person’s ECG and other vital signs and send them directly to clinicians, eliminating the need for large, fixed, telecare systems in patients’ homes. Professor Bryan Woodward and Dr Fadlee Rasid from the university’s department of electronic and electrical engineering have developed […]
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E-health not reaching full potential, says study
An industry study into the takeup of e-health technology within the UK has concluded that health professionals are not taking full advantage of what’s available to them, and that waiting for supporting infrastructure to be put in place by the National Programme for IT is not necessary. The study [PDF, 350K], undertaken by The E-Health Innovation […]
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Tunstall teams up with Honeywell HomMed
Tunstall, the UK telecare and telehealth solutions specialist, has formed an distribution and alliance agreement with Honeywell HomMed, a leading US provider of remote patient monitoring devices. Under the agreement Tunstall will offer Honeywell’s HomMed Genesis monitor throughout the UK, already used by 350,000 patients. Tunstall says it will target the chronic disease management market, […]
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