Efficiency

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5 December 2006

Heartlands uses RFID for patient identification

The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Safe Surgery Systems Ltd a contract to supply a Radio Frequency
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22 November 2006

Telehealth innovations unveiled at conference

Partners Telemedicine, a US based telecare provider, have told a conference that patients should be encouraged to use ‘self care’
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17 November 2006

Nuffield aims for ‘paperless’ hospital finance

Nuffield hospitals, the UK independent hospitals group, has signed a contract with document management specialists Version One to implement its
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16 November 2006

New order

In his second article for EHI, Dr Andrew Harrison suggests some ways that ordering tests could be made seamless and
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13 November 2006

Human change the ‘greatest challenge’ for NHS IT

Achieving changes in human processes to accommodate the IT revolution is perhaps the greatest challenge to the successful implementation of improvements in the
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9 November 2006

SNOMED set 31 December deadline for new SDO

Plans to create a SNOMED CT Standards Development Organisation by the end of the year have taken a step forward
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24 October 2006

NHS Grampian to get in-car telemedicine

Adastra Software has won a tender to supply its unscheduled care case management software to NHS Grampian, and to provide
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22 September 2006

St George’s switches to ITIL framework

St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has rolled out a new Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework, based on Connecting for
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10 August 2006

Leicestershire PCTs saving approx £2m from clinical IT

Health software supplier Ethitec has calculated that the six primary care trusts in Leicestershire are making efficiency savings worth the
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28 July 2006

Electronic staff record now biggest NHS payroll provider

The NHS Electronic Staff Record is now installed in over 150 sites across England after being implemented of the largest
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