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8 March 2006

Birmingham and Solihull extends patient RFID tagging

Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it is to further expand its trial of tagging surgical
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7 February 2006

Texting reduces treatment times for STIs

A six-month study into the effect of text messaging in an STI clinic has revealed that sending notifications by SMS
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12 January 2006

Asthma sufferers get help from space

  Mobile phone users with asthma in south London are getting pollution alerts via SMS thanks to satellite technology from
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19 December 2005

SMS appointment reminders get language boost

A GP practice in south London which is using text messaging to send out appointment reminders to its patients will soon
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13 December 2005

Training on the go

Dr Neil Bacon, founder of Doctors.net.uk, on the benefits of online training and how a programme funded by the HPA
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26 August 2005

SMS event alert system planned for care workers

iSentry have announced the release of their Digital Witness service, a web-based compliance monitoring and alert system aimed at health
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25 July 2005

NHS temp workers to get shifts by SMS

NHS human resources managers may soon be able to text temporary staff on their books with details of their vacancies,
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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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1 June 2005

Addenbrooke’s installs SMS patient reminder system

Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, has implemented an SMS reminder system for patient appointments after a series of pilots of different software.
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7 April 2005

Unreliable patients most likely to ask for SMS reminders

Patients most likely to be ‘Did Not Attends’ (DNAs) at outpatient clinics are also the most likely to sign up for text
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