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Patients can 'opt out' of NHS IT system
News Patients will be able to "opt out" of having their details stored and shared on the NHS's electronic care record system, according to the government. Speaking at a conference in London last week, health minister Lord Warner confirmed patients will...
[October 31, 2006, 8:45]
Patients should see records online, NHS experts say
Blog The NHS and healthcare would be transformed by putting patients' medical records on the web for them to see, senior NHS insiders have suggested. At a roundtable discussion last week, a panel of experts said that patients would benefit, as they...
[August 24, 2009, 12:28]
Delivering Optimal Service to Patients, Doctors, and Healthcare Employees With Symantec
White Papers CareGroup Healthcare System (CareGroup) needed to optimize the performance of its most critical software applications in order to maintain the highest standards for treating its patients and running its business.
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
NHS loses patients' data on USB drive
News The lapse comes in the wake of the loss of hundreds of thousands of patients' records by nine NHS trusts in December. We did not notify the patients affected because the data lost would not be of assistance to ID fraudsters," Popplewell added.
[January 18, 2008, 14:59]
Cisco Helps Boston Medical Center Transform Traditional Nurse Call System Into Real-Time Communication With Patients
White Papers Noise from constant overhead paging was annoying to both patients and staff. Boston Medical Center replaced out-of-date nurse call systems and enhanced communications capabilities with a Cisco Medical-Grade Network that transmits alerts from...
[January 31, 2009, 7:32]
Enterprise Single Sign-On and HIPAA: A Best Practice in the "Good Faith Effort" to Protect Patients' Privacy
White Papers Vital features will be reviewed - persuading any organization from a small doctor's office to a large health maintenance organization (HMO) to implement single sign-on as a first line of defense in protecting patients' privacy rights.
[May 9, 2005, 3:00]
Monitoring Chronically Ill Patients Using Mobile Technologies
White Papers Using mobile technologies to remotely monitor patients has many potential benefits, not the least of which is the improvement in quality of life which patients experience when they are in their home environment rather than a hospital.
[March 7, 2007, 0:00]
Headset improves mobility of Parkinson's patients
News But these proved to be too cumbersome for mobile use by Parkinson's patients, said Xybernaut. According to the Parreha website, some Parkinson's disease patients have trouble walking because of a syndrome called kinesia paradoxa: When moving down...
[February 28, 2003, 15:32]
Patients should see records online, NHS experts say
Blog Comment I've just had a letter from them. It made me so angry I could barely speak! Fisrt it is an opt-out system - say nothing and your details automatically go online. Opt-outs have a habit of getting 'lost'.
[August 25, 2009, 8:03]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
Talkback I don't mind an adhesive tag while I'm in the hospital, but I don't want anything injected into me that's permanent or even semipermanent. Once we remove humanity from the equation and rely on data without the informal knowledge that goes with it...
[February 9, 2006, 13:51]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
Talkback So it starts! Anyone who has the power (Governments, large organisations, etc.will be able to track whosoever they want, whenever they want and, when the GPS version becomes viable, wherever in the world they want.
[July 29, 2004, 9:33]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
Talkback the mark and the cashless society.why do you think the telephone,electricity,pension,social security company's etc offer us bribes of cheaper bills if we only were to pay or be paid by direct debit.the goverment's want a cashless society.when...
[May 28, 2005, 19:53]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
Talkback Surely we would have a choice. I don't want this under my skin. Do you have any info on this?
[August 3, 2004, 22:11]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
Talkback One world government, one world religion, and one world monetary system with a way of tracking everyone with the "mark of the beast" or face death, under the rule of the anti-Christ is Bible prophesy beginning to come true.
[August 4, 2004, 22:38]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
Talkback Rev 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great,rich and poor, free and bond, to recieve a mark in their right hand, or in there foreheads: that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of...
[January 8, 2005, 11:56]
NHS U-turn over deletion of patients' records
News Following discussions with the Information Commissioner's Office, the agency in charge of the NHS National Programme for IT has given patients the right to delete an SCR as long as it has not been used.
[May 27, 2009, 9:24]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
Talkback I think the control is already in place to control most everyone. There is noplace on earth that you can't be tracked by satelite. Now they want "On Star" in all our cars. Add RFID tags for further insurance, your freedom is pretty much gone.
[May 31, 2005, 20:46]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
Talkback we are looking at the product rfid and we were wondering about implants being done in the london uk could you suggest a website or a place that implants them thank you.
[January 18, 2006, 17:25]
Patients should see records online, NHS experts say
Blog Comment This all smells a bit funny I think the government is trying to pull a fast one hear, by doing it this way they are cutting corners instead of investing in a decent system, they could also be paving the way for more private care schemes, the...
[August 27, 2009, 15:07]
RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms
News The Federal Drug Administration issued a ruling on Tuesday that essentially begins a final review process that will determine whether hospitals can use RFID systems from the company to identify patients and/or permit relevant hospital staff to...
[July 28, 2004, 12:00]
