Quality

Archive
5 November 2007

Toulouse hospital first in France to use Agfa HIS

The Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Toulouse has become the first French teaching hospital to go-live with Agfa HealthCare’s ORBIS health information system.
Read More
2 November 2007

Remote monitoring first for Amsterdam hospital

St. Lucas Andreas Hospital has become the first in the Netherlands to introduce a remote monitoring system for cardiac patients
Read More
1 November 2007

Spine to be shut for two day ‘refresh’

Connecting for Health (CfH) and BT have confirmed that the NHS Spine will be unavailable when it is taken down
Read More
1 November 2007

New information chief sought

The hunt is on for a new leader for the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care. Advertisements for
Read More
31 October 2007

Mobile SAP helped Swindon’s flood victims

During the summer’s floods housebound patients in Swindon were visited and assessed by community practitioners, who used mobile devices running
Read More
31 October 2007

Microsoft acquires hospital IT software from GCS

Microsoft Corporation has continued its push into the health IT systems market with the acquisition of a number of assets
Read More
25 October 2007

High tech healing space unveiled by Philips

A room divider displaying medical records forms part of a 'healing space' and was among the technological pickings on show
Read More
24 October 2007

PDA software lets nursing assistants review drugs

Providing mobile drug management tools and web-based training on drugs management to nursing assistants can help cut prescribing problems among
Read More
24 October 2007

Summary Care Record launched in Bolton

The first 48,500 summaries of patient records have been uploaded to the NHS Spine and out-of-hours staff in the Bolton
Read More
24 October 2007

Clinical process improvement drives EMR use

The need to improve clinical processes and workflow efficiency in healthcare is driving more healthcare organisations to look positively at
Read More