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This is the government we should trust with our identity data?
Talkback And third that they have no proper tracking of disposals to be able to see how the hard drive left the hospital. It's clearly not being done by the hospital. This leaves me astonished. First that it should happen.
[September 18, 2007, 10:49]
Find A Doctor
Downloads Searches for Doctor or Hospital based on your location.2. Complete hospital list of USA and India5. One stop shop for phone and email contact for doctors and hospital. See Google maps directions for doctor and hospital.
[January 4, 2010, 6:34]
NHS picks BT for massive broadband network
News It will provide every hospital, primary care trust and general practice with a high-speed Internet connection. A large hospital can expect to see its existing 2Mbps link replaced with one of 100Mbps, while community hospitals and primary care...
[February 19, 2004, 12:20]
Schneier: ID cards will worsen ID theft
Talkback I can just imagine the scene when a hospital's civil servant shill enters the waiting rooms of a hospital. I can't wait until they tie this in with the NHS, so that unless they can verify who you are, you don't get treated, should be fun when the...
[April 28, 2006, 11:44]
Bluetooth arrests heart problems
News It won't be the first wireless device to monitor heartbeat patterns of cardiac disease sufferers, but "expensive" and "inflexible" wireless monitoring technology to date has seen patients confined to "in-hospital" local area networks, says...
[January 24, 2001, 8:32]
Sat nav sends ambulance on 400 mile round trip
Blog The crew had been tasked with taking the male patient 12 miles across Essex from King George Hospital in Ilford to Mascalls Park Hospital near Brentwood - a 12 mile journey which should have taken about 30 minutes.
[December 1, 2006, 16:00]
BT wins Recycler Of The Year award
Blog It allows users to speak to each other instantly anywhere in the hospital through a voice-controlled, wearable badge weighing less than two ounces. These badges have already been deployed in libraries in Minneapolis (July 2006), hotels in Austin...
[February 22, 2007, 14:55]
Government concedes opt out of NHS database
News The government is investing at least £6bn over the next nine years to update the NHS' IT systems, including putting patient data from the hospital and GP computer systems into a centralised database, which can be accessed by health professionals...
[June 17, 2005, 17:20]
Bluesocket Case Study: Providence Health System
White Papers While most of the doctors who operate from the hospital now use the private internal WiFi network and hospital PCs to access and share medical information with each other, down the road they may also make use of the public WiFi system to access...
[May 10, 2006, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Many hospital radio stations have as much, if not more, IT infrastructure than the smaller commercial stations -- and rely on computers to play out specially prepared pre-recorded music and programmes during the 20 hours a day that the volunteers...
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
Nurses first to use Intel tablet PC
News The $2,199 (£1,126) C5 is technically called a "mobile clinical assistant", but it's basically a small tablet PC redesigned for a hospital environment. The C5 is directly connected to the other medical equipment used to take a patient's pulse or...
[February 21, 2007, 15:08]
Affording Disaster Recovery
White Papers The hospital is now planning to add a nearby Disaster Recovery (DR) facility so that it can duplicate its various configurations at another completely separate campus location. But all that takes money and the hospital doesn't have enough in the...
[August 18, 2006, 1:00]
Vassar Brothers Medical Center Goes Wireless to Improve Employee Productivity and Patient Care
White Papers HealthServe sought a technology vendor that could address the complex technical and logistical challenges - such as lead walls, bricks and ceramics - of a hospital environment. IBM and InnerWireless, Inc.a provider of in-building wireless solutions...
[November 10, 2006, 0:00]
MedicMate
Downloads Created and designed by doctors on the shop floor, MedicMate offers a highly portable and functional healthcare application that includes five zones of work-related activity.Patient ZoneMedicMate's Patient Zone is a powerful and dynamic...
[January 14, 2008, 7:00]
Transplanted head to review NHS IT
Blog Hospital patient admin systems (PASs) were supposed to be running by the end of November - call it 19 in reality. Also bear in mind that BT, who are supposed to be rolling the new systems out across London, have so far succeeded in installing only...
[November 27, 2006, 13:56]
New NHS system to SMS patient appointments
Talkback The existing archaic system of hospital appoints using snail mail is fairly foolproof (although my local Hospital Trust has stopped giving appointments until 6 weeks before one is due to see the consultant - emphatically denies that it is a...
[January 11, 2006, 20:02]
NHS IT project told to improve or risk break-up
News Currently, the patient administration systems (PAS) needed to lay the groundwork for electronic medical record transfers are only deployed in 133 of England's 380 acute hospital trusts. The local service providers are never going to deliver what is...
[January 28, 2009, 16:39]
Labor Mate
Downloads As the contractions become longer and more frequent Labor Mate tracks the information for you and reports the timings back in an easy-to-read format so you can decide when it is time to call the doctor or head off to the hospital for delivery.
[July 16, 2009, 9:37]
Government concedes opt out of NHS database
Talkback I was diagnosed with cancer and opted to be referred to a hospital in London for the recommended operation (the choice was based on consultant recommendation and performance statistics from NWCS/HES).
[July 5, 2005, 9:34]
Summary care records open to receptionists
News GP surgeries and hospital trusts use a complex range of staff, all of whom must be trained for the tasks they perform. A document obtained by Computer Weekly under a Freedom of Information request reveals that receptionists at Royal Bolton Hospital...
[March 4, 2008, 13:05]
