Humber first mental health trust to use SystmOne
Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has become the first trust in the country to deploy the SystmOne Mental Health system, delivered by local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as part of the NHS National Programme for IT. Using SystmOne, ninety care practitioners working at the in-patient unit at the Townend Court learning disabilities […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 30.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 30 May 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Ascribe announces 12 new sales in last year Ascribe has announced that during the last 12 months it has increased the customer base of its next generation hospital Web […]
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Anoto enables BlackBerry integration to digital pen
Swedish digital pen and paper specialist, Anoto, has partnered with wireless BlackBerry platform developer, PaperIQ, to enable digital pen and paper input to be wirelessly transmitted to the character recognition system. The Anoto Digital Pen Integration Kit for BlackBerry provides users with everything required to integrate Anoto’s digital pen technology with a BlackBerry smartphone application […]
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Airedale hospital to pilot RFID from Siemens
Airedale NHS Trust will be piloting new Radio Frequency Identification technology from Siemens Healthcare to track 100 intravenous pumps across the trust, over 30 days. The pilot will be the first time both Siemens and Airedale have used RFID technology to track assets across various buildings on the hospital site, via the hospital’s new wireless […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 27.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 27 May 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news PromptSMS selects Tyntec For health sector SMS alerting Mobile messaging services provider TynTec has announced that it has been selected by Australian SMS gateway PromptSMS to provide high-reliability messaging […]
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Welsh hospitals deploy Cisco wireless
Clinicians at the Princess of Wales Hospital and Neath Port Talbot Hospital, part of the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (ABM) University NHS Trust in South Wales, are now able to access information about their patients’ bedsides using a new Cisco wireless Local Area Network (LAN). Using the wireless LAN, clinicians can now access information about their […]
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NCR to launch patient kiosks in Europe
The Adventist Healthcare Solution Kiosk A new touch-screen kiosk is to be launched in Europe by self-service specialist NCR, designed to simplify the checking in and out procedures for patients. MediKiosk, a self-service machine which interfaces with hospital information systems and collects clinical information from patients prior to an appointment, is to be piloted by […]
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New category added to the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008
An extra category has been added to the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008 offering another opportunity to showcase excellent work by the UK’s healthcare IM&T community. The new category for Excellence in Healthcare Information Management, sponsored by IMS Health, is aimed at individuals and teams that support the increasingly complex requirements for information in all […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 09.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 9 May 2008 featuring supplier news, appointments and awards. Supplier news Salford deploy CACI management information system Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has chosen the InView management information system from CACI to improve clinical reporting and support the their quality agenda. InView, which utilises a […]
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New electronic handover device launched
A new Windows Mobile application called MedicMate, designed to provide doctors and consultants with handover electronic copies of patient notes, has been developed by CMO Global. Based on US style ‘track and bill’ systems, the software allows users to securely log onto a web application and electronically enter patient notes on PDA or smartphone devices, […]
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