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Doctor iPhone will see you now…
News The analyst group Datamonitor predicts this move could lead to more doctors adopting healthcare applications such as electronic health records and clinical decision support systems. Medics have been slow to adopt such technologies - which provide... [17 Mar 2008]
Wireless hospital brings patient data to bedside
News The WLAN, which is completing a pilot stage in two wards and is expected to roll out to the rest of the hospital by the end of the year, will be used in conjunction with the C5 mobile tablet PC to provide doctors and other medical staff with... [24 Jan 2008]
Thousands more UK patients' details lost
News The lapse come in the wake of the loss of hundreds of thousands of patients' records by nine NHS trusts in December. The security of information held by the NHS suffered a further blow after the loss of another 4,000 medical and personal details... [18 Jan 2008]
Highways Agency inks £75m outsourcing deal
News A key ultrasound and medical imaging contract was suspended last March after incomplete patient records and diagnosis delays were discovered. The Highways Agency has awarded Atos Origin a £75m contract to manage its IT infrastructure and... [03 Jan 2008]
Microsoft and NHS team up on software design
News The idea is that there would be an open standard that would allow all kinds of information - medical device data, prescription information and other patient records - to be maintained in one electronic file. [10 Sep 2007]
GPs to get greater tech choice
News The NPfIT projects supported by the first contacts include the electronic booking system (Choose and Book), the Electronic Prescription Service and the GP2GP electronic patient records transfer system. [31 Jul 2007]
NHS IT project rolled out nationwide
News GP2GP is one of the projects within the wider NHS IT programme and allows patient health records to be transferred between GP practices electronically, instead of using the traditional paper-based system. [24 Jul 2007]
NHS Trust cuts the wires, plans for RFID
News The Cisco-based network, supplied by integrator Affiniti, will enable patients to be monitored wherever they are - on the ward, the cafeteria or in the grounds - and patient records will be automatically updated at the bedside, giving medical... [09 May 2007]
Snatched laptop puts 40,000 at risk of ID fraud
News Since early 2005, more than 150 million personal records have been exposed in dozens of incidents, according to information compiled by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. The University of California at San Francisco recently said a possible... [10 Apr 2007]
Fresh data leak scare at US university
News Since early 2005, more than 150 million personal records have been exposed in dozens of incidents, according to information compiled by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. A possible computer security breach at the University of California at San... [05 Apr 2007]
Hard drive goes awol with US vets' data
News Representative Spencer Bachus, whose district includes Birmingham, said his office's initial indication was that as many as 48,000 records may have been compromised, with as many as 20,000 not encrypted. [06 Feb 2007]
NHS: 'No risk over smartcard sharing'
News Reports emerged recently that smartcards - used by clinical staff to access patient records on the overhauled NHS IT network - were being shared between A&E clinicians at South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust. [05 Feb 2007]
NHS helpdesk opens for business
News New systems include the Electronic Prescriptions Service and NHS Care Records Service. The helpdesk also offers medical staff the ability to register problems via email and through a web logging facility. [16 Jan 2007]
Hospital boosts safety with single sign-on software
News The system provides single sign-on access for authorised medical staff to various clinical applications such as ward lists and patient medication records. This reduces the risk of data such as medication records being confused and patients being... [06 Dec 2006]
Top 10: The best, worst... and craziest uses of RFID
News Visitors to the hospitals are given RFID-chipped wristbands to wear which are scanned by medical personnel to bring up their records and make sure the patients are given the correct dosages of drugs. Japanese authorities decided to start chipping... [30 Nov 2006]
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