15 March 2005

PA calls for electronic tracking of medical devices

The Patients Association has called for the NHS to introduce modern electronic ‘data capture’ systems to enable individual medical devices
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15 March 2005

Kent uses telehealth for chronic disease support

Kent County Council has launched a series of telehealth and telecare initiatives, in what it claims makes it one of
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15 March 2005

Cardiff begins roll-out of EHRs for community nurses

Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust has announced that it is rolling out an integrated electronic health record for community nursing
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15 March 2005

Web-based monitoring system on trial in King’s

Voice Integrated Products have updated their Solo remote lone-worker monitoring system to allow management of mobile staff over the web
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14 March 2005

MPs call for block on ETP ‘nomination’ plans

A cross-party group of MPs has backed calls for prescribers to be prevented from nominating pharmacies when electronic transmission of
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14 March 2005

EMRs reduce visits for primary and specialist care

The introduction of electronic medical records (EMRs) reduced visits to primary and specialist outpatient care in two regions covered by the
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11 March 2005

Version One updates document imaging with OCR

Version One has announced a new version of its document imaging software used by a number of NHS trusts that
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10 March 2005

UCLH goes live

UCLH is the first to go live with Carecast from IDX; what can other trusts learn from the experience? E-Health
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10 March 2005

Limited public access to cardiac surgery data agreed

The Central Cardiac Audit Database is to have a public portal allowing access to selected cardiac surgery mortality data. The
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9 March 2005

Single sign-on targeted at UK health organisations

An IT security company which claims successful implementations in US hospitals of its enterprise single-sign on (ESSO) system has set
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