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Cegedim Rx plans telehealth move

Pharmacy systems specialists, Cegedim Rx, has partnered with Telehealth Solutions to integrate self-monitoring devices with their pharmacy systems. Telehealth Solutions
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Call for improved sat nav for blind

Professor John Gill, chief scientist at the Royal National Institute of Blind People has called for satellite navigation systems to
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Most GP systems will require security upgrades

The majority of GP clinical IT systems will not meet the Department of Health’s new data security requirements for transfer
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Pharmacists may get access to patient care records

The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved.
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£8m to be spent on telehealth in Scotland

The Scottish government has announced that an extra £8m is to be spent on telecare over the next two years.
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Patient information: how ICTs can help

Fiona Barr looks at the role information technology can play in providing greater information for patients.
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Hi-tech bed sheets to monitor heart rate

Patient’s heart being monitored via bed sheet. Philips Research is to pilot a new bed with built-in sensors and the
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North Lincs community nurses get mobile

Community nurses in North Lincolnshire are to get wireless rugged laptops in one of the largest deployments yet of mobile
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Mobile monitoring system developed for carers

Crown Computing has developed a new monitoring system, using Near Field Communication technology, which allows carers to notify their authority
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Belfast gets European Connected Health centre

Belfast, Northern Ireland, is to be the home of a new ‘European Centre for Connected Health’, intended to help test
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