Nottingham says PACS has already saved £1m
The deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems can save trusts over £1m each year, an NHS IT director has claimed. Andrew Fearn, director of ICT services at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust says that his trust has made the savings, calculated before deductions on the cost of PACS, based on reductions in the costs […]
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Imprivata puts in single sign-on smartcards at 11 trusts
Authentication and access management specialist Imprivata has signed up 11 trusts to use its new NHS OneSign, providing single sign on for all trust applications, after joining forces with Connecting for Health’s smartcard provider, Gemalto and smartcard software developer Intercede. Imprivata has added its single sign-on technology to CfH’s existing smartcard technology and spent six months […]
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Nottingham buys CliniSys chemo prescribing solution
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen the CliniSys Oncology ChemoCare chemotherapy prescribing solution for three of its hospital sites, the software has been funded by NHS Connecting for Health. The solution will provide a multi pharmacy application for adults, haematology and paediatrics across the Nottingham City Hospital, Queens Medical Centre and Kingsmill Hospital. ChemoCare […]
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New medical students to face computer test
Many students applying to university to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude test as part of their course application. The UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), which is being developed by a consortium of universities with testing company Pearson VUE, will affect students applying to 24 medicalschools nationwide, […]
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Mobile download offers healthy food options
Overindulged on the mince pies and brandy butter during the holidays? A new program, which can be downloaded onto mobile phones, allows weight watchers to keep food diaries and find healthy alternatives to food items by typing in part of the product’s barcode. The Nutracheck Mobile program also links to a database containing nutrition information […]
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Universities and WHO aiming for e-health for poor
The World Health Organisation is to start work with 17 universities across the world to bring e-health to developing countries, it has been announced. Universitas 21 (U21), a group of universities that include Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Nottingham as well as institutions in Sweden, Australia, Canada and South Korea, has set up a working party with […]
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Online tool to promote NHS infection awareness
An online training tool to help all NHS staff understand infection control and make hospitals cleaner has been launched by chief nursing officer (CNO), Chris Beasley. Launching the new online tool at the Infection Control Nurses Association annual conference, the CNO said: “This innovative approach to training will mean hundreds and thousands of NHS staff […]
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EU conference in Norway spotlights e-health partnership
European commissioners have called for greater partnerships between both the public and the private sector and between different countries to advance the cause of computerising healthcare across Europe. The third European ministerial conference on e-health, held this week in Tromso, Norway, focused on best practice and examples of how e-health can improve patient care, and […]
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Data quality vital to electronic transfer of prescriptions
Keighley, the first pilot site for electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP), has found that before new national systems can be used, staff must first fully reconcile any discrepancies between patient details from the local practice system and the patient demographic details held on the NHS Spine. Being first to implement ETP meant Keighley had to […]
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Computer generated brain surgery to help trainees
Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a virtual reality brain surgery simulator for trainee surgeons that combines haptics with three-dimensional graphics to give what they claim is the most realistic model in the world. A ‘map’ of the brain surface (below) is produced by the software, which also renders the tweezers (on the […]
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