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4 August 2005

Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical

29 June 2005

PCTs in Staffordshire have started piloting a scheme where elderly people are reminded to take their medication with an

9 June 2005

Colin Jervis of Kinetic Consulting examines some of the innovative ways that RFID tags are being used in patient care

23 May 2005

Dr Richard Fitton, GP and member of the Care Record Development Board, predicts a future in which patients have control

17 March 2005

A trust-wide implementation of advanced digital dictation and speech recognition software is planned for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. The aim

15 March 2005

Voice Integrated Products have updated their Solo remote lone-worker monitoring system to allow management of mobile staff over the web

28 January 2005

A GP in South Africa who runs an SMS appointment reminder service, has gone one better and unveiled a pill

8 December 2004

The introduction of wireless tagging such as RFID technology in the NHS could result in job losses due to the removal

27 August 2004

IT staff at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust have developed an alert system for the A&E department that displays each

21 July 2004

Electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) could have stopped Dr Shipman from prescribing controlled drugs for so long without anybody noticing,

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