Look at app
A recent study identified 321 imaging apps for smartphones. But what kind of apps are they – and how are they being used? EHI Imaging Informatics editor Kim Thomas investigates.
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Safety first
Dr Maureen Baker talks to Lyn Whitfield about a decade of work to develop a safety culture for healthcare IT, focused on adapting the standards and safety cases in use in other sectors.
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CCIO profile: Dr Les Boobis
Les Boobis’ parents were disappointed when he studied medicine rather than IT, but he’s managed to combine the two at City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, with a big Meditech v6.0 implementation. Daloni Carlisle talks to him.
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Physician heal thyself
Dr Lawrence Weed, leading champion of health IT for 50 years, says the practice of medicine remains unscientific because knowledge tools are not used effectively.
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Hospitals still failing on wristbands
Several major hospitals are failing to generate and print standardised wristbands for their patients.
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DH mandates incident reporting
The Department of Health has confirmed that it will end the voluntary system for reporting patient safety incidents to the National Patient Safety Agency. Instead, it will make it mandatory for all NHS trusts in England, including hospitals, primary care trusts, mental health services and ambulance services to report instances of harm or death to […]
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Third of trusts miss wristband deadline
The National Patient Safety Agency has admitted that almost a third of NHS acute trusts in England and Wales have failed to meet the requirement to generate and print standardised patient wristbands. The NPSA has issued statistics to E-Health Insider that show that more than three months after the deadline passed in July, only 70% of NHS […]
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CQC criticises discharge summaries
The Care Quality Commission has warned that the NHS may be failing to prevent harm to patients by failing to share information when they move between services. The findings come in a report by the watchdog called ‘Managing patients’ medicines after discharge from hospital’, based on a national study that visited 12 primary care trusts […]
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Great Ormond Street completes JAC EPMA
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has become the first paediatric hospital in the UK to complete a roll-out of an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration system from JAC.
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Trisoft adopts Mid Essex pre-op module
Trisoft has worked in collaboration with Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust and Health Enterprise East to develop a web browser based pre-assessment system, and interface it to its TheatreMan theatre management system. The original software was developed by consultant anaesthetist Dr Ronan Fenton, who wanted a replacement for the paper records that were previously […]
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