Birmingham PICS CSE as partner
Birmingham Systems PICS (Prescribing Information and Communications System), developed by staff at the city’s University Hospitals, is now available to other healthcare providers following an implementation partnership agreement with CSE Healthcare Systems. The system, which was on show at the Informatics Congress 2010 in Birmingham last week, not only provides an electronic prescribing and medicines […]
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Nurse suspended for op pics on Facebook
A nurse has been suspended following reports that she took photos of patients having operations and posted them on a social networking site. The member of staff from Southern General Hospital in Glasgow allegedly secretly took the pictures without other members of staff knowing and posted them on Facebook. It is believed that the photographs […]
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Mobile phone pics help emergency NHS 24 diagnosis
A Scottish woman has had a life-threatening condition diagnosed after using a mobile phone to send pictures of her swollen legs to an NHS 24 doctor. Fran Neri, 25, was rushed to hospital after the shocked NHS 24 doctor received the pictures of her swollen legs and immediately sent an ambulance. According to the Scotsman […]
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