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Revamped clinical system for stoma nurses launched

Satellite navigation, voice recognition and a group calendar all feature in a newly-revamped patient management system devised for specialist stoma
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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
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NHS Direct staff could face job cuts

Jobs at NHS Direct may be cut by up to a third, and nurses replaced by non-medical call centre operatives,
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Nurses told they must connect to CfH

Clinical leads have told nurses have to be proactive and to give feedback to Connecting for Health otherwise they risk
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400,000 nurses to be registered on Contact

Connecting for Health has announced it is planning to ensure that every nurse in England as well as Scotland has their own
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Rant or rate?

A NHS-backed social software project is helping patients give feedback online directly to healthcare organisations, finds Fiona Barr.
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HC2006 to run NHS basics course for new IT staff

  The annual Healthcare Computing conference (HC2006) in Harrogate is to feature for the first time a series of workshops
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Nursing engagement ‘could become a risk’

Communication with nurses affected by new IT implementations is an issue and will become a risk without appropriate action, IT
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Staff workflow key to health IT success, says study

Healthcare IT implementations could risk failure if care is not taken of how users react to the tasks they are
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US speakers for first CfH nursing conference

US nursing experience of using clinical IT systems will be shared at Connecting for Health’s first conference for nurses and
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