Concern about USB sticks used for handovers
The security of data stored on USB sticks has been called into question following the theft of a stick containing unprotected confidential patient details at the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. Around a third of junior doctors currently use universal serial bus (USB) sticks as a means of saving and storing patient data, to pass on […]
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Community staff in Nottingham trial wireless record access
Community-based health professionals in Nottingham have taken part in a successful three month mobile technology trial, using wireless broadband-enabled laptops from Dell to access and update patient records on the move. The trial enabled staff to remotely access and update electronic patient records from the SystmOne primary and community care system supplied by TPP. The […]
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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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