Bristol wristbands use GS1 coding
NHS trust improves patient safety by adopting national coding standards for its new printed wristbands.
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Walsall first with Horizon Visibility
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the UK to go-live with McKesson’s new Horizon Enterprise Visibility patient monitoring system.
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Simulator trains surgeons to be more efficient
Danish research has found that using simulators to train surgeons can make them twice as quick and more precise when operating.
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NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards for the Emergency Care Summary.
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Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety
The Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety was won by NHS National Services Scotland for the Emergency Care Summary. The runners up were VitalPAC at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
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Lone NHS workers get safety alarms
The Department of Health has announced that 30,000 lone NHS workers are to get personal safety alarms incorporating location tracking technology.
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Social care to use NHS Number
The Department of Health has announced that the NHS Number can be used in social care to link social care records as well as NHS records. The DH has issued a policy statement on use of the NHS Number in social care which confirms that it must be used for linking and identifying NHS records but […]
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Network resilience is a CERT
An EU agency has called for governments to set up a single Computer Emergency Response Team to improve the resilience of their computer networks. The European Network and Information Safety Agency (ENISA) says computer and information networks are now as important as power or water networks, and should be protected accordingly. In a report surveying […]
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Dutch Patient Safety Company targets UK
The largest clinical governance software specialist in the Netherlands has announced it is looking to sign its first UK clients. The Patient Safety Company currently provides clinical governance systems to 40% of the healthcare market in the Netherlands. The company says that it is bringing the software to the UK as a “reaction to the […]
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HL7 and IHTSDO sign agreement
Health Level Seven, the international healthcare IT standards body, has partnered with the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, a provider of standardised clinical terminology. The partnership is designed to foster interoperability and lead to improvements in patient safety by eliminating gaps and overlaps between the HL7 and IHTSDO standards. The focus of joint work […]
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