EMIS pilots GP booking through digital TV
EMIS has joined up with a South Yorkshire local government digital TV portal to allow patients to book GP appointments through interactive TV. Patients of two GP surgeries in Barnsley can access the booking service, which links up with EMIS Access, through the local government information channel e@sy Connects TV, beamed to around 10,000 households […]
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Keeping an eye on ID
Identifying patients to access their records can be a big problem for A&E staff and paramedics. So why not use biometric scanning, wonders Michael Casey?
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Great Ormond Street selects Tomcat for cardiac system
Belfast-based Tomcat Clinical Systems, the supplier of specialist Cardiac Information Systems has signed a contract with London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children to supply a paediatric Cardiac Information System. The TOMCAT system manages the information relating to all aspects of a patient’s cardiac treatment and is now in use in hospitals across the UK […]
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Haematology software wins primary care award
Software that automatically works out correct dosages of anti-coagulation drugs for patients has won the prestigious John Perry Prize from the Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG) at the British Computer Society. The prize, worth £500, was given to the INRstar system, developed by Dr Mark Sullivan and Dr Robert Treharne Jones of Sullivan Cuff […]
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The future of digital imaging
The government recently announced that all acute trusts in England will move to PACS within the next three years. This is a huge undertaking both in terms of costs and especially change management…
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Personal health record-keeping gets popular in US
Two in five adults in the US keep their own personal and family health records, with 13% of them keeping them electronically and 40% planning to do so in the future, a new survey has announced. The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive, asked 2,242 adults about the information they recorded about their health. 42% said […]
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Web-based dermatology system installed in Kent
Medway NHS Trust, in Kent, have installed a new internet-based teledermatology system that allows doctors in remote locations to make clinical decisions. E-Ceptionist, based in Houston, Texas, claim that their software reduces waiting times and helps to keep down waiting lists. Kye Johnanning, spokesperson for E-Ceptionist, told E-Health Insider how the system works: "When the […]
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First QMAS system fully approved in NPfIT pilot
The National Programme for IT have rubber-stamped the first clinical software system for use with the new Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS) being piloted this summer. HealthyGP, from Healthy Software, achieved official NPfIT certification for supplying GMS Contract Submissions prior to the formal introduction of the system in April 2005. EMIS is also piloting […]
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Virtual surgery on real patients helps training
Virtual reality training and testing for surgeons that is actually based on scans of real patients may soon become commonplace thanks to an EU Framework-funded project tested in the UK. The Integrated Environment for Rehearsal And Planning of Surgical Interventions (IERAPSI) initiative consists of Tempo Reality, a simulator that combines sight and touch and, and Tempo Review, a 3D […]
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Blair: Choose and Book historic development
Tony Blair has defended the development of the NHS’s Choose and Book programme, the new name for the new NHS e-booking service, at Prime Minister’s question time as the deadline for the first live e-booking looms closer. Speaking on 16 June, Blair said: "It is this government, for the first time in the context of […]
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