Telecare specialist Tunstall bought in £225m deal
Tunstall, the specialist in personal and home telecare, has been acquired by private equity firm Bridgepoint from Hg Capital in a deal worth a total of £225m. In a simultaneous deal Tunstall has acquired Attendo Response and Attendo Systems, a market-leader in Scandinavian telecare solutions. The acquisition will create a group with combined annual sales […]
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Computer access for hospital doctors poor, say BMA
Some hospital doctors are expressing concerns that they do not have enough access to computers and e-mail to do their work, raising problems of patient confidentiality as many terminals are situated in public areas or have multiple users. The claim comes as part of a motion put forward today at the British Medical Association’s Staff […]
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New professional standards for team records
Regulators of health professionals have signed up to new standards for keeping records of team-based care in all formats, including electronic records. The standards draw together best practice from nursing, midwifery, medicine, dentistry and the professions allied to medicine in four areas: confidentiality and disclosure; communication of information; process principles; and professional and personal knowledge […]
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Groundhog Day
Connecting for Health’s new strategy to engage with professional associations seems strangely familiar, reports E-Health Insider from the Clinical Information Advisory Groups’ press conference in London.
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Germany joins hospital RFID pilots
Germany has joined the growing number of countries experimenting with wireless tagging of hospital patients to improve safety and provide easier access to data. The Klinikum SaarbrÜcken in western Germany, this month launched a pilot project covering 1000 patients in collaboration with technology partners Siemens Business Services, Intel and Fujitsu Siemens Computers. In addition to making patient […]
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RCN Congress calls for nurse IT involvement
Nurses need training and guidance to use new IT systems within the NHS or they risk being left on the sidelines, delegates at this week’s Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress in Harrogate have argued. Graeme Elrick, chair of the RCN Information Nursing group, said that it was important that nurses control how IT delivers care […]
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Evercare pilots highlight need for better data
Case management will not get off the ground unless PCTs, acute trusts and GPs improve their data management and quality, a report for the Department of Health has shown. The report by UnitedHealth Europe assessing its nine Evercare pilot sites funded by the DH last year uncovered significant issues with data quality and access to […]
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Nurses need better access to IT, says RCN survey
A survey of nurses, midwives and health visitors undertaken by the Royal College of Nursing has shown that not enough nursing staff have access to information, computer training and the internet when they need to at work. Although 15% of nurses said they had no access to computers and 17% said they had no access […]
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Community nurses need better information access
The Royal College of Nursing have said that community nurses and others who work in primary care are much less likely to have access to health libraries, and that information technology services need to be improved for them. According to a recent survey undertaken by the RCN into nurses’ attitudes and experience with information technology […]
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IT input for nurses
E-Health Insider speaks to Sharon Levy from the RCN about what steps NPfIT needs to take to engage with nurses, and how the RCN is planning to argue the case for the profession.
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