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Academics set up wiki to monitor NHS IT

The 23 academics who wrote to Parliament outlining their concerns about the progress of the National Programme for IT have
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Telehealth must get smarter, says report

A new report calling for ‘more intelligence at the core of healthcare IT systems’ claims that while the current e-health
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Metal medicine

E-Health Insider looks at the continuing work into robotics in healthcare being carried out by Imperial College, London.
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UK telehealth firm gains EU recognition

The Health-eLife project, which uses doc@HOME technology from UK-based telehealth services firm Docobo, has been awarded ‘project of the month’ status
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NI to link barcodes on prescriptions to EPRs

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland has announced it has signed a £6.8m contract
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City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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Heart of England procures independently on PACS

Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust in Birmingham has gone outside the nationally negotiated NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) contract
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Wales to receive Map of Medicine

Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT programme, has announced that it has secured Map of Medicine, a web-based clinical pathways
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Space programme

One of the most intriguing aspects of the NHS IT programme is the HealthSpace project, the online patient portal. Daloni
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Bluetooth ID badge handwashing monitor proposed

A team of academics, clinicians and computer scientists have developed a system that uses a Bluetooth-based wearable ID tag to
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