EHI’s industry round up 31.7.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new and upgraded products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Eizo supports Sectra in Northern Ireland Monitor manufacturer Eizo has been chosen to provide medical monitors for the Swedish medical IT company Sectra, which is installing PACS at Northern Ireland’s hospitals. The Northern Ireland […]
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Bristol wristbands use GS1 coding
NHS trust improves patient safety by adopting national coding standards for its new printed wristbands.
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NPSA Never Events policy welcomed
A company making IT systems to prevent wrong-site surgery has welcomed the launch of a national patient safety policy focusing on eight types of incident that can easily be prevented. Jeremy Turbervill, head of sales for Safe Patient Systems, said it was pleased the National Patient Safety Agency had issued the Never Events policy, which […]
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Royal Brompton and Harefield implements WLAN
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, has implemented a wireless local area network (WLAN) supplied by French telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent.
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NHS Number Safer Practice Notice issued
The National Patient Safety Agency has urged all NHS organisations in England and Wales to use the NHS Number as a national, unique patient identifier to reduce errors caused by local numbering systems. The NPSA, together with NHS Connecting for Health in England and Informing Healthcare in Wales, has issued a Safer Practice Notice about […]
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‘Choozomatic’ praised by NHS Institute
The ‘Choozomatic’ – a patient voice-activated, touch screen device that is wirelessly linked to wristbands telling doctors and nurses who needs their help, has been singled out for praise by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. The Choozomatic, developed by Chloee Robinson from Charter Primary School in Coventry, has only reached the cardboard and […]
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EHI’s news roundup 21.07.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week beginning 21 July 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Poole to deploy Alcatel-Lucent wireless network Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Dorset is deploying an Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Local Area Network to help improve patient care at its 789-bed hospital. The […]
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NHS Supply Chain awards wristband contracts
NHS Supply Chain has announced that eight suppliers have been chosen to provide patient identification wristbands to hospitals in England and Wales. The move follows studies published by the National Patient Safety Agency showing that a high proportion of patient safety incidents are linked to patients not wearing wristbands or wearing wristbands with incorrect information […]
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GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’
Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to ‘scan and save’.
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