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NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider
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Lone NHS workers get safety alarms

The Department of Health has announced that 30,000 lone NHS workers are to get personal safety alarms incorporating location tracking
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Consultation into ethics of new technologies

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has launched a public consultation on the ethical issues related to online healthcare, telemedicine and
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Panasonic launches new Mobile Clinical Assistant

Panasonic has launched the latest version of its Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged tablet-style wireless handheld computer specifically designed for
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Best Practice online

The BMJ is launching an online point-of-care decision support tool that aims to provide immediate access to expert opinion, guidelines
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Clinical Solutions gets a Mentor

Clinical Solutions has signed a three year deal with primary care IT supplier EMIS to integrate EMIS’s Mentor drug database
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Heartlands rolls out JAC e-prescribing system

Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has started to roll out a JAC e-prescribing system across all three of
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Eclipse is phased out

Torex, the owner of the Eclipse pharmacy system, has announced that it is to dicontinue the development of the product
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Wikipedia can omit key drug information

New research warns that consumers who relay on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for drug information may be putting themselves at
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BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: the finalists

All the finalists in this year’s awards, along with a description of their projects.
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