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5 March 2019

Charities call for quicker access to technology in NHS screening review

Responding to the review charities have called for greater investment in IT systems to improve dwindling attendance numbers and a
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5 March 2019

University Hospital Ayr becomes first Scottish hospital with 4K theatre

The Olympus Endoalpha theatre uses a Visera 4K ultra high definition camera to provide images four times the resolution of
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Pager ban controversy
5 March 2019

What Matt Hancock got right – and wrong – about the pager purge

No one could disagree with Matt Hancock's contention that the pager is an outdated pieces of technology. But Joost Bruggeman
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Chain SMS
5 March 2019

GP direct messaging services raises more than £8m in funding

Chain SMS, created by AccuRx, lets GP practices send texts to patients which can include asking them to book tests
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4 March 2019

Liverpool Heart hospital goes live with Silverlink bed management system

Staff can create a graphical representation of their ward, allocating and moving patients between beds using a “drag and drop”
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4 March 2019

Torbay and South Devon deploys Dedalus ePMA solution

The solution, supplied by Dedalus, was been introduced on six medical wards, one ambulatory unit and two emergency admissions units
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A computer keyboard, with a key reading 'data security'
4 March 2019

Thousands of GPs risk breaching data protection laws in new vaccine data system

The new system uses a process that copies, transfers and stores the whole GP database, rather than the minimal data
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CareFlow Whittington
1 March 2019

Whittington has ‘complete picture’ of vital signs thanks to CareFlow

The technology has been rolled out across the adult wards, meaning staff are now recording details of a patient’s vital
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1 March 2019

Poorly regulated 5G tech opens up risk of ‘catastrophic cyber threats’, IoT director warns

In the UK several companies are looking into the viability of 5G technology in healthcare, but as with all new
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Digital Health Cybersecurity Round-Up
1 March 2019

Cyber security news round-up

Our latest cyber news round up features a report which suggests legacy applications could be posing a serious cyber security
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