Welsh patients warned of ‘backlog’ following widespread network failures
A widespread network failure at two data centres in Wales has now been resolved but there has been warnings that some areas may experience a “backlog”.
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University Hospitals Southampton links up data from neonatal ICU unit with its EPR
The CIO for a trust in Southampton has said it was a “big decision” to link up data from its neonatal intensive care unit with its EPR.
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Southern NHS trusts get systems of choice
NHS trusts in the South of England are to be offered a choice of systems and to have them funded as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Intel opens Visual Computing Research Centre
Intel Corporation is to invest €8.6m ($12m) in a new Visual Computing research centre that will explore advanced graphics and visual computing technologies. Opened this week, the Visual Computing Institute is located at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. Applications to be developed include medical imaging, games and interactive 3-D data models used in areas such […]
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GE offers $100m loans to boost EMR use
GE Healthcare has launched a programme of €72m ($100m) in interest-free loans to boost electronic medical record (EMR) adoption in the US. Hospitals and doctors will be offered loans to invest in GE Healthcare’s Centricity EMR software, without having to first raise funding for capital investment. Investment in certified EMR systems forms a key part […]
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Finland establishes industry e-health centre
The Finnish health and welfare sector has established a strategic expertise centre (T&H SHOK) focused on improving health and well-being using technology. The new centre will be led by a limited company jointly established by 29 Finnish firms, including IT services firm Tieto. The new centre is intended to improve the quality and efficiency of […]
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UK telehealth trials missing minorities
Concerns have been raised that the UK’s biggest ever trial of telehealth technologies is excluding non-English speaking people, despite the promises of social inclusion. A conference this week heard that non-English speakers and people without phones are often unable to benefit from the large-scale pilots now being developed. The Department of Health’s Whole System Demonstrator […]
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European hospitals share real-time videos
Hospitals in Norway, Italy and Spain have been linked together using an advanced video conferencing system enabling them to share real-time images of surgery for training and diagnosis. The systems were linked as part of a demonstration at the Terena Networking Conference in Malaga this week, intended to show how similar telemedicine systems could improve […]
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Canada hit by e-health scandal
The agency responsible for ehealth in Ontario has become the centre of a scandal involving uncompetitive contract awards, massive consultancy fees and posh biscuits. The agency in question, eHealth Ontario, is reported to have forked out nearly €3.2m (CAD $5m) in contracts without any apparent attempt to open up the deals to outside bidders, according […]
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Critical Care data debuts on iPhone
On Monday Apple showcased a third party app that allows doctors to monitor patients’ vital signs remotely. The iPhone application allows real-time heart rate, temperature, blood pressure and other data to be transmitted from patient monitors to a doctors’ iPhone. The Critical Care application was demonstrated at Apple’s annual developers conference in San Francisco as […]
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