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RSS doctorBBC iPlayer gets ready to go Worldwide
News The service will give users access to some of the corporation's flagship programmes, such as Doctor Who or Torchwood. BBC Worldwide has confirmed it wants to launch an iPlayer-style paid-for video platform, allowing... [12 Oct 2009]
Photos: The hottest tech out of the UK's Silicon Valley
Photo Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, co-founder of PKB, said with the system patients with chronic conditions better manage their illnesses from home and improve communications between the patient and the doctor. Patients will also... [24 Sep 2009]
Applying Discourse Analysis and Data Mining Methods to Spoken OSCE Assessments
White Paper This paper looks at the transcribed data of patient-doctor consultations in an examination setting. The doctors are internationally qualified and enrolled in a bridging course as preparation for their Australian Medical... [29 Aug 2009]
Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News At the Haughton Vale Surgery and the Thornley House medical centre in Manchester patients can view their records via a secure website - which helped one patient get medical treatment while on holiday in France, after they were able to... [21 Aug 2009]
Inside the SpinVox Brain
Comment Obviously a doctor who uses more unique terminology and a more expansive dictionary will require more human intervention than the kind of average Joe on the street," Domecq told us at the demo - a qualifying appendix to... [06 Aug 2009]
Photos: How touchscreen tech helps a hospital keep tabs on patients
Photo Walsall Manor Hospital is helping its doctors and nursing staff save time, thanks to a new system that tracks patients and beds. The hospital has installed a Horizon Enterprise Visibility system, which pulls information from different... [09 Jul 2009]
'Innovation, not cutbacks, is right prescription for NHS IT'
News Cutbacks in technology spending are the wrong remedy for the NHS in an economic downturn, according to a junior minister at the Department of Health. Instead, the NHS should embrace the efficiencies IT can bring, professor Lord Darzi,... [22 Jun 2009]
HP Thin Client Solution Delivers Just What the Doctor Ordered
White Paper North Shore Medical Center is a 300-bed community hospital affiliated with Partners Health Care, serving north suburban Boston including Salem, Lean, Danvers and other communities. When the North Shore Medical Center in Massachusetts... [12 Jun 2009]
HD iPlayer lands on Virgin Media
News Like the online iPlayer, selected content from the BBC HD channel - such as Doctor Who, Robin Hood and Later. The high-definition (HD) version of the BBC's iPlayer is now available to Virgin Media Digital cable customers. [05 May 2009]
Photos: Doctor, doctor - your receptionist looks like a touchscreen
Photo 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... [23 Apr 2009]
Navy Doctor Hails SmartDraw as the Best Graphics Program for Medical Professionals
White Paper Ann Kopelson, a flight surgeon and general practioner with the U.S. Navy, was looking for a medical graphics package to help her create patient education handouts. Kopelson needed an easy-to-use program with detailed medical graphics,... [23 Apr 2009]
BBC iPlayer gets the HD treatment
News Both streamed and downloaded content - such as Doctor Who and Dragons' Den - will get improved picture quality in the coming weeks. Selected programmes will soon be available on the BBC's iPlayer online on-demand TV... [17 Apr 2009]
Just What the Doctor Ordered - Creating Impressive Patient Education Diagrams With SmartDraw
White Paper Billy Childress was studying for an ambitious degree at the University of Phoenix in Tampa, Florida: a Master of Science in Nursing and an MBA in Health Care Management. The dual degree provides medical professionals a unique blend of... [15 Apr 2009]
NHS IT delays laid bare by £1.8bn underspend
News CfH also recently announced that the system that the GP2GP system, which allows electronic health records to be transferred between doctor's surgeries, had completed more than 500,000 electronic health record transfers. [02 Apr 2009]
Microsoft sets Foundation of small biz server push
News A doctor's office, for example, might use a server to allow staff to share files, access the same systems or maintain a website. Microsoft on Wednesday launched a new range of server systems for small companies, scaling... [01 Apr 2009]
