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Cheshire and Merseyside ICS sign for region-wide AI deal

Nine acute trusts in the Cheshire and Merseyside region are to benefit from a deal signed with C2-Ai, to expand
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VR surgical simulator first to receive Royal College accreditation

It’s the first simulation with HapticVR to receive CPD points and will cover the Fundamental Surgery total hip replacement training
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NHS hospitals accused of being ‘stubbornly attached’ to fax machines

FOI requests made by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) show that NHS hospital trusts in England own a total
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Radiology transformation through collaboration

Ireland’s National Radiology Quality Improvement Programme used the Conserus Workflow Intelligence solution to drive quality improvement against national guidelines; and
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EPR implementation led to ‘catastrophic loss of confidence’

Problems with the introduction of the Epic electronic patient record at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust led to a
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Surgeons to be ‘named and shamed’

Doctors who opt out of disclosing their performance data should be “named and shamed”, the health secretary has said.
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Surgical data reduces mortality

A study has revealed that since surgeons started publishing data on outcomes for people undergoing heart operations, mortality rates have
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Simulator trains surgeons to be more efficient

Danish research has found that using simulators to train surgeons can make them twice as quick and more precise when
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Coroners Bill protest escalates

Eight healthcare organisations have called for medical records to be excluded from the data-sharing provisions of the Coroners and Justice
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Tories promise NHS information revolution

The Conservative Party has promised an “information revolution” in the NHS with a focus on health outcomes.
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