GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’
Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to ‘scan and save’.
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DH funds collaborative ICT research
Information and Communications technology features in five of the seven partnerships which are receiving a share of the £64m research grant for studies looking at major conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The new National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaborations for Health Research and Care sites were announced by health minister, Dawn Primarolo, […]
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Over a million patients seen without records
A poll of NHS acute trusts indicates over 1.2m outpatients in England are seen each year without the clinician having access to a patient’s records. Health Service Journal magazine surveyed 49 NHS trusts and found that in the last year, around 54,000 outpatient appointments took place without the use of medical records. Of the 49 […]
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Trafford gets Cameron’s vote
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust tell EHI how their BT e-Health Insider award caught David Cameron’s eye.
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McKesson launch whiteboard monitoring system
McKesson’s Horizon Enterprise Visibility McKesson has launched its Horizon Enterprise Visibility product – a whiteboard style system that provides real time information of a room’s availability, patient location and the current status of a patient’s treatment – to the UK market. McKesson say the system is the first visual control system designed specifically for hospitals, […]
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Scottish doctors angry over e-health cuts
Doctors at the Scottish BMA conference have expressed concerns over the Scottish government’s decision to cut £5m from the e-health budget earlier this year. The move, which was announced by the government in February in order to recruit more police officers, has angered Scottish doctors, who say it could endanger patients. Dr Stuart Scott, chairman […]
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CfH says patient safety work has progressed
Connecting for Health has worked hard to ensure its clinical software design meets patient safety requirements after a review conducted four years ago found that the National Programme for IT was not pro-actively addressing safety. Speaking at the Healthcare Computing conference, Maureen Baker, CfH’s national lead for clinical safety, said: “The main findings four years […]
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CfH buys 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards
Connecting for Health has purchased 7,500 wipe-clean keyboards as part of a new initiative to help keep IT equipment infection free. The cleanable keyboards are designed to help prevent cross-infection in hospital environments, cutting the spread of hospital acquired infections like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and clostridium difficile (C. Diff.). No plans have been confirmed […]
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Readers’ insight into e-prescribing needed…
EHI is calling for readers to provide their views on the development of acute e-prescribing to inform a round table debate.
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Bolton moves to online pharmacy system
Actor Dave Spikey helps launch Bolton’s new robotic dispensing system. The Royal Bolton Hospital, part of the Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, has upgraded its electronic prescribing system to the Ascribe Web Pharmacy system, and invested in a new robotic dispensing system. To be delivered over three months, the system was launched by Phoenix Nights actor and Bolton […]
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