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900 clinicians get Samsung Galaxy Tabs to enable mobile working and cut travel time Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS foundation trust has begun the roll out of tablet devices to hundreds of clinicians. The first tablet devices will be given to community services staff next month. By the third quarter...
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Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli explains how medical practitioners can make the most out of online patient-to-patient networks There is a quiet revolution happening in the way patients and medical professionals communicate, interact and relate to each other and it's a revolution only made possible by online...
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A summary of what our panel of health professionals said about the involvement of companies in research and development Sharmila Nebhrajani is chief executive of the Association of Medical Research Charities Impact of the Health and Social Care Act: For the first time it places research at the very heart...
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Primary care trust plans to create electronic patient care record for healthcare professionals to access NHS Oxfordshire is to put the medical records of around 545,000 people online in an effort to give healthcare professionals faster access to patients' information. The Oxfordshire care records...
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Oxford University hospitals NHS trust is dealing with patient contact and data quality issues following major project to implement Cerner Millennium A roll out of the Cerner Millennium electronic patient record (EPR) system caused delays in treating patients at Oxford University hospitals NHS, its board...
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Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital foundation trusts advertise for suppliers to help move from in-house infrastructure to managed service Cambridge University Hospitals NHS foundation trust and Papworth Hospital NHS foundation trust are seeking suppliers to provide project management...
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Chief executive of Whittington Health, Dr Yi Mien Koh, explains to Jessica Fuhl that the biggest challenge to integration and efficiency is getting staff on board Whittington Health has ambitions plans for the future. It hopes to achieve foundation trust status by 2014 and its first step to ensure it...
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Department of Health receives thousands of responses to call for comments and ideas about best health apps The Department of Health (DH) has received nearly 500 entries and more than 12,600 votes and comments in response to its invitation for ideas about the best existing apps and ideas for new ones...
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*** Vinegar, the Patient from Hell, is confused by a late flurry of contradictory snail mails on his knee surgery I keep on banging on about how dreadful it is that the NHS is an email-free zone as far as patients are concerned. I hate to return to the subject, but I have just been subjected to a personal...
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Government says independent review will focus on the balance between protecting patients' health and social care information and sharing to improve patient care Dame Fiona Caldicott will lead the government's review into confidentiality and the sharing of health and social care information, the...
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St George's healthcare trust collaborates with eight trusts to purchase ICT including electronic patient record and administration systems St George's healthcare trust is leading eight other London trusts in setting up a framework contract worth between £250m and £400m. The deal will provide...
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Medical information should be handled by qualified people with specialist skills, any let up in standards could prove fatal Would you trust an unqualified surgeon to replace your hip; an uncertified electrician to re-wire your house or unregistered plumber to install gas central heating? Then why do...
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NHS trust launches first phase of project to provide real-time access to the Spine from its patient management system University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has deployed a system that allows it to access patient demographics data in real-time. The trust previously had no direct access to...
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Gaps in recording and invoicing for patient treatments result in trusts losing hard cash but better training and support for coders could stem the flow, explains Kate Schroder Work I've undertaken within trusts over the past 14 years has shown that up to 5% of treatment goes unrecorded or unpaid...
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Foundation trust trials Lorenzo electronic patient record system ahead of launch planned for the summer Humber NHS foundation trust has said that testing of the Lorenzo electronic patient record (EPR) system is under way ahead of a full launch planned for this summer. "Humber has created new processes...