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7 March 2008

EHI’s industry news roundup 07.03.08

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 7 March 2008 featuring supplier news and appointments. Supplier news
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17 May 2007

Safety now number one priority for CfH

Professor Michael Thick, the chief clinical officer for Connecting for Health, explains how the agency has made patient safety its
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10 November 2006

NPSA issues spec for electronic blood tracking

The National Patient Safety Agency has unveiled new measures to help improve the safety of blood transfusions, including the initial
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31 August 2006

Smart sponges to reduce surgical accidents in US

A new barcode system used on surgical sponges will be trialled by the Veterans’ Administration West Los Angeles Health Care
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16 August 2006

Trusts urged to move faster with e-prescribing

Trusts are being urged to move forward faster with e-prescribing and the use of robotics to automate hospital pharmacies by
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6 July 2006

Patient safety becomes priority for NHS IT

The NHS National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has worked with Connecting for Health to build a rigorous system of safety
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6 March 2006

Sentinel enables Sedgefield PCT to log incidents online

Sedgefield Primary Care Trust is reported to have seen a dramatic increase in the reporting of patient safety incidents since
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24 November 2005

Wristband risk to patient safety highlighted

A drive to raise awareness of the importance of patients wearing hospital wristbands should make barcode and RFID technology more
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26 July 2005

National patient safety database delivers first results

The National Patient Safety Agency has published its first report on patient safety incidents across the NHS in England and
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9 June 2005

Tag team care

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