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£11m for learner dentists' IT
News The Department of Health, NHS Connecting for Health and the Dental IT programme board announced the cash injection yesterday, with an extra £11m allocated for technology used to train dentistry students. [09 Oct 2008]
Ethics, complexity spark U-turn on NHS records
News It follows the launch of a 12-week consulation by the NHS with the public on how it uses patient data. The NHS is to overhaul the way staff access electronic medical records following... [19 Sep 2008]
Electronic Information Enhances Patient Care for Health Service
Delivery of care by multi-disciplinary teams within the National Health Service (NHS) suffers from fragmented information and workflows. This can lead to duplication of patient records, unnecessary... [19 Sep 2008]
Electronic Information Enhances Patient Care for Health Service
White Paper Delivery of care by multi-disciplinary teams within the National Health Service (NHS) suffers from fragmented information and workflows. This can lead to duplication of patient records, unnecessary... [19 Sep 2008]
Photos: Tomorrow's tech showcased by inventors
Photo The NHS has developed a system that eventually will let doctors talk to patients from practically anywhere in the world. MICS will allow a doctor to speak into a mic attached to a tablet PC, which will immediately... [18 Sep 2008]
Liverpool midwives cull paper with 3G laptops
News Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust is freeing its community midwives from the burden of paper with new remote working tech. Chaudry said: "When they [the midwives] go out to see the patient they are... [27 Aug 2008]
Hospitals get remote access to patient records
News The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust has implemented a secure remote network to improve clinicians' access to cancer patient records. The project, which will cost £60,000 in the first year, has... [21 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo The NHS celebrated its 60th birthday on 5 July. This piece of equipment measures a patient's blood oxygen level and takes their pulse - in this case a plucky volunteer guinea pig has 98 per cent blood... [01 Aug 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News The AIDC has been set up by CfH with standards organisation GS1 UK in conjunction with the National Patient Safety Agency and NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency. Connecting for Health (CfH) said the... [09 Jul 2008]
Photos: 60 years of NHS tech
Photo The NHS celebrated its 60th birthday on 5 July. What is now BT was part of the General Post Office when the NHS started in 1948. The first piece of tech to benefit the NHS was the... [09 Jul 2008]
NHS data handling: Calls for independent audits
News NHS trusts are being urged to introduce independent auditors to make sure they are keeping to guidelines to protect their handling of patient data. The potential change was revealed by Marlene Winfield,... [07 Jul 2008]
Flagship NHS Hospital Chooses Symbol Spectrum24 Wireless System
White Paper The Royal Hampshire Hospital claims to be the only hospital in the UK so far to have one integrated clinical record per patient. The Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester has implemented a Symbol Spectrum24... [03 Jul 2008]
Probe into loss of 21,000 hospital patient details
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will investigate whether Colchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act when it failed to encrypt 21,000 patient details. [30 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News NHS trusts will not have completed encrypting patients' personal data held on their computers until later this year. It means data will not be fully protected until 10 months after NHS chief executive... [24 Jun 2008]
NHS broadband network speeds patient diagnosis
News NHS patients in Kent and Medway are benefiting from a broadband link with hospitals in London that enables doctors to send high-grade images such as X-rays and angiograms electronically, speeding up diagnosis and treatment. [18 Jun 2008]