EHI’s industry news roundup 18.04.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 18 April 2008 featuring supplier news, acquisitions, events and awards. Supplier news Zebra patient wristbands proven MRSA-resistant Results of independent lab tests at Northland Laboratories in the US show Zebra’s patent-pending antimicrobial wristband coating effectively resists Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Type II, Type III and […]
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Eighty trusts sign up to ‘scan and save’
The GS1 asset tracking technology in use. Radio Frequency Identification and barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that almost eighty NHS trusts across England have signed up for to its ‘scan and save’ initiative for automatically tracking and tracing sterile surgical instruments. The wireless wristband and barcode-based technologies allows hospitals to trace the complete life […]
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Five trusts adopt ‘scan and save’ for surgical instruments
Radio Frequency Identification and barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that five NHS trusts in the North-west have signed up for to its ‘scan and save’ initiative for automatically tracking and tracing sterile surgical instruments. This will allow the hospital to trace the complete life cycle of surgical instruments, including the verification of the decontamination and sterilisation process, […]
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RFID and care records could be linked
A future in which data from hospital systems, including the Care Records Service (CRS), can be integrated with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags used to track patients and equipment in hospitals was spelled out at Healthcare Computing in Harrogate this week. Peter Flood, national accounts manager for Bluestar Technologies, a UK-based RFID specialist, said that […]
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DH embraces wireless safety technologies
A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by health minister Lord Hunt. The Department of Health believes that auto-identification and data capture (AIDC) technology has the potential to tackle mismatching errors in particular, as well as bringing other efficiencies and cost savings. Lord […]
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A world of good
Some of the best ideas for e-health around the World were brought together for the Imagine Cup. Joe Fernandez reports.
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Heartlands uses RFID for patient identification
The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Safe Surgery Systems Ltd a contract to supply a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) patient identification system that links to electronic patient records on PDAs, allowing staff to identify patients before they go for surgery. Hear of England will use wireless PDA’s and patient wristbands fitted with […]
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Birmingham and Solihull extends patient RFID tagging
Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it is to further expand its trial of tagging surgical patients with RFID wristbands. E-Health Insider reported in October 2004 the trials of a tagging system in the ENT department of the Heart of England trust, then called Birmingham Heartlands and Solihill NHS Trust. Patients arriving […]
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Wristband risk to patient safety highlighted
A drive to raise awareness of the importance of patients wearing hospital wristbands should make barcode and RFID technology more effective and help prevent errors. The initiative launched this week by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) was discussed at a healthcare group meeting of Intellect, the trade association for the UK’s high tech industries. Chris Ranger, […]
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