Newgate Technology begins Northern Ireland EPR roll-out
Newgate Technology, a Scottish-based health software and data collection specialist, has won a tender to deploy a regional theatre management system into 16 hospitals in Northern Ireland. As part of the project Newgate have begun work on piloting their theatre electronic patient record (EPR) software, a system called Nexus, at the Belfast City Hospital. The […]
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BT encourages trusts to use its conferencing service
Working across the UK health sector BT is helping to save millions of pounds each year as more and more trust sign up to conferencing solutions, which will further be enhanced by Video Conferencing soon to be available over the Health Service network. BT Conferencing is BT’s specialist service for the delivery of robust, reliable […]
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Remote storage secures data despite floods
Many GP practices in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire have been able to keep electronic patient data safe from the recent severe floods in the region, thanks to local service provider Computer Science Corporation’s (CSC) remote data storage policy. Since Monday, torrential rain across northern England has resulted in severe floods, with towns remaining submerged in water. […]
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NHS Choices website launched
The Department of Health has launched the new NHS Choices website, replacing the previous NHS.uk website. The new website, which stays at the same http://www.nhs.uk web address, aims to personalise healthcare and provide information that will ‘allow patients to make meaningful choices about when and where to receive their treatment.’ The new website goes under […]
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DH explains summary and detailed records
Guidance on how the two elements of the NHS electronic patient record – the detailed and summary records – will work in England has been released by the Department of Health. The guidance re-iterates that only the Summary Care Record (SCR) will be a national system, and that patients can opt-out from data being visible […]
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Poll finds 80 percent want hospital ‘scorecards’ online
An opinion poll commissioned by ‘think tank’ Policy Exchange has found that almost 80% of patients would like more information on how their NHS hospital performs available on the internet. The poll of 1000 patients found that almost a third of people do not know how to find data about how their local NHS services […]
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New NHS information sources unveiled
Two new NHS websites designed to improve information for patients have been unveiled. NHS Choices, to be launched this summer, will offer general information with the aim of making “authoritative and high quality information very much simpler for patients, the public and health professionals to use.” A much more specific internet service offering information about […]
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Cardiac telemedicine could save NHS £46m says report
A pilot of cardiac telemedicine services in Cumbria and Lancashire has concluded that if introduced nationally the technology could save 100s of lives, lead to 45,000 fewer hospital admissions and save the NHS around £46m. In a pilot lasting 18 months, NHS North West, in collaboration with the NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Cardiac Network […]
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Debate over legality of Care Record Guarantee
British data protection laws used to create the Care Record Guarantee could fall foul of new European Commission data protection laws, adopted in February according to an international law expert. However, the view expressed to the parliamentary select committee on health by Douwe Korff, professor of international law at London Metropolitan University, was vigorously opposed […]
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Consumer is king in wireless health
More consumer-driven wireless developments are on the horizon as mobile technology enjoys wider adoption in healthcare.
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