By Nick Heath, 23 April 2009 15:58
King's College Hospital will move towards self-service healthcare with Europe's largest rollout of touchscreen medical kiosks.
From early autumn patients at the London hospital will be greeted by the NCR MediKiosk, a touchscreen computer that allows patients to notify hospital staff they have arrived and update their contact details.
A total of 50 kiosks are being deployed at the hospital's dermatology, haematology, orthopaedics, urology and general surgery clinics as part of the wider NCR patient automated arrival system being fitted at the hospital.
The kiosks will eventually take over more roles from receptionists and clinical staff, targeting patients with health messages on waiting room displays and showing reminders of essential information, such as not to eat before an operation.
Photo credit: NCR Corporation
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1. anonymous
Just what you want, TOUCHscreen kit in hospitals that manky staff/visitors/patients can contaminate with lord knows what super-bug.
Are the receptionist staff to be re-allocated to other admin jobs round the hospital, or will they add to the 2 million plus on the dole these days.
2. Ollie Clark
They've got a touchscreen in my local GP surgery. I'm always amused by the disease ridden patients smearing their hands all over it one after the other.
No handwash station next to it. No cleaning spray for it (I asked). Anyone would think the surgery were trying to drum up more business.
Now they're rolling it out to the rest of the NHS. Great. I take it this was a management, not a clinical decision.