Elderly and vulnerable kept connected during Covid-19 via specialist tech
Over 3,000 elderly and vulnerable people have been connected to their families during Covid-19 via specially adapted tablets.
Digital Patient

Getting tablet computer storage right at Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham
GDPR throughout the UK creates need for safer, encrypted data within hospitals. The Royal Orthopeadic Hospital sought a secure, wall mounted charging cabinet to roll out throughout the hospital wards for their GDPR compliant Surface Pro deployment.
Infrastructure

Healthcare IT primary care news in brief
This week’s industry round-up focuses on news from the primary care sector, including contracts for prescribing software and the use of tablet computers by GPs.
News

Threat to hurl tablets into canal
Clinicians at a central London trust threatened to throw their tablet computers into a canal before confidence was built in adopting mobile working, an electronic patient record clinical lead has said.
Clinical Software

Ealing midwives take to tablets
Ealing Hospital has gone live with a new offline information system that lets midwives keep track of patient data using a mobile tablet device.
News

Another view: mind the gap
GP Neil Paul wonders why an “implementation gap” so often opens up between a simple idea and actually doing it; whether that’s handing out tablet computers, or providing remote access to records and systems.
Feature

Nursing tech fund 2 to be open to all
Further details about the second round of NHS England’s Nursing Technology Fund, including an expansion of eligible organisations, are set to be released shortly.
News

Liverpool gets Emis access on tablets
Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust has deployed 1,500 tablets to give its staff access to Emis Web in the community.
News

East London goes mobile
East London NHS Foundation Trust is giving its children’s services team tablets with access to the trust’s mobile patient management system while they are out in the community.
News

Millions spent on mobile tech
Successful Nursing Technology Fund trusts will spend millions on mobile devices such as tablet computers before the end of this month.
News