Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals
University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a heart attack, for their clinical training from September.
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iSoft become Sentillion’s first UK partner
iSoft has signed an agreement with US-based single sign-on specialist Sentillion, to become its first healthcare channel partner in Europe. Sentillion provides single sign-on (SSO), context management, and user provisioning technologies. As a result of the deal, iSoft will offer NHS trusts the opportunity to purchase new SSO technology with its software, enabling staff to […]
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ExpreSSO promises faster route to single sign-on
Healthcare access and identity management specialists, Sentillion, today launched a ‘plug and go’ single sign-on (SSO) solution called ExpreSSO. Sentillion bills ExpreSSO as offering fast access to a remedy for multiple sign-ons. Healthcare staff frequently complain about having to memorise multiple passwords to access different applications within their hospital system. Resetting forgotten passwords can be […]
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HL7 UK to hold NHS systems interoperability seminars
HL7 UK, the promoter of healthcare interoperability standards, have announced they are to hold a series of free one-day seminars across June and July in Birmingham, York and London to promote healthcare systems interoperability. The events are aimed at NHS IT professionals and are designed to communicate the capabilities and best practice for the sharing […]
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Vital signs system monitors patients electronically
A new hand-held computer system called VitalPAC, which allows staff to input patients’ vital signs electronically from the bedside, has been deployed at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. VitalPAC is a software system designed by hospital improvement specialist The Learning Clinic in conjunction with Microsoft and the trust, which records, stores and analyses vital signs data, […]
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Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients
Hospital and GP records for 1.5 million patients are to be available for the NHS to share in a ground-breaking project launched ahead of the national NHS Care Records Service. The Clinical Data Repository (CDR) set up by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority has gone live this month with GP records for […]
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Accolades for clinical and IT collaboration
NHS Connecting for Health has awarded five accolades to NHS organisations for their work in improving patient led services where clinicians, IT and information teams have worked together. The accolades went to: South Tees NHS Trust for its Hospital at Night (H @ N) rapid response system. Every junior doctor who is part of the […]
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PACS tomorrow
Daloni Carlisle reports for E-Health Insider on why PACS delivery is slower than expected, and reveals that affordability is mostly to blame.
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Why Brunel would back NPfIT
Alright you anoraks, what do you know about engineering? I don’t mean plugging in the odd bit of extra RAM. I mean real engineering.
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Portsmouth pioneers reverse e-auction for generic drugs
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust claimed an e-health first this week with an announcement that it had completed the UK’s first reverse online pharmaceutical supplies auction. A reverse auction works, as the name suggests, in the opposite way to a conventional auction in which prices start low and bidders increase their offers. In Portsmouth’s reverse auction […]
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