National Health Service (NHS)
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'Paperless NHS' Plan To Put Patients' Medical Details Online
Jeremy Hunt launches digital health records project alongside report claiming it could save nearly £5bn a year Read More »
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A Deadly Equation Of Acronyms: NHS+IT=FUBAR
I've recently had the pleasure of taking part in two hacker events organised within the context of healthcare and, specifically, the UK's National Health Service.[...] To be clear (and more seriously), I am using the term "hacker" in the way it is used within Information Technology circles: a hacker is a person with a passion for exploring and solving problems through writing and sharing software. Read More »
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A New View Of VistA
In a guest column, VistA sceptic Ewan Davis argues the US open source system might have something to offer the NHS – but not if it becomes an open source NPfIT. Read More »
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A paperless NHS? Swapping best practice and ideas with the US Veteran Health Administration to make it happen
If the NHS is serious about going digital it should continue to build on an existing partnership with the VHA and continue to revolutionise healthcare, says the report "Making connections - A transatlantic exchange to support the adoption of digital health between the US VHA and England’s NHS" developed jointly by the VHA, 3Millionlives and published by 2020health. Read More »
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Ahead Of Obama Visit, MSF Warns US Pressure On India Could Impact Access To Medicines For Millions
Ahead of US President Obama’s visit to India, the international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) expressed deep concern over the US government’s heightened efforts to undermine access to affordable medicines from India—often called the ‘pharmacy of the developing world.’...
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An Open Source Vision
A campaign is attempting to bring VistA, an open source IT system, to the NHS. Why should you consider it? Read More »
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Antibiotic Resistance Rise Continues
Antibiotic prescriptions and cases of resistant bacteria in England have continued to soar despite dire warnings and campaigns, figures show...
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At CES, Humetrix Shows its e-Prescribed Digital Health Technology to Transform Healthcare in the Hands of Consumers
At CES, Humetrix will demo its suite of mobile health platforms that put consumers around the world in control of their own care. By offering actionable mobile applications that address the complexity of medical care, delivered in multiple settings, and which needs to be personalized, Humetrix places decision-making tools in consumers’ own hands and on their own devices, where they can use it.
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Berwick Platform: ‘Seriously’ Explore Single Payer, Review Cost Control
Granted, a candidate releasing his platform on health care for a race that’s a full year away might not strike you as big breaking news...That candidate is Dr. Donald Berwick, former chief of Medicare in the Obama administration, and that territory is the idea of a “single-payer” system — a sort of “Medicare for all” that’s common in other developed countries but that faces some strong opposition in the United States...
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Big data in healthcare: how comfortable are you in your role as 'research patient'?
The UK's National Health Service [NHS] is turning to IT in a big way, with plans to be completely paperless by 2018. More significantly, it wants to make much of that massive data supply transparent.
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BJSS and Apperta Drive Open Source Across the NHS
BJSS, the Award-Winning Delivery-Focused IT Consultancy, and the clinician-supported Apperta Foundation CIC, today announce a partnership to promote the use of Open Source technology products across the NHS. The partnership will initially target deployment of LiveObs across the network of NHS Trusts in England. LiveObs is the BJSS-supported Enterprise edition of the Open e-Obs product, enabling real-time, device-agnostic nursing observations and assessments, multidisciplinary escalation and handover, and clinical task / workload management...
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BridgeHead Announces Integrated Protection And Recovery For Cache® Databases
Extends BridgeHead Software's Rapid and Reliable Management of Hospital Data to the Many Healthcare Applications Built on InterSystems Cache® Databases Read More »
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BRISSKit: Connecting Researchers With Clinical Data
The UK government is starting to recognise the value of data to the economy and is developing policy that aims to realise that worth. One of the largest and, potentially, most useful repositories of information in the country is the NHS, housing vast quantities of patient data with myriad applications. [...] Read More »
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Can Startups Save the NHS?
A near-sacred institution, the NHS has spent little time out of the public psyche since its inception in 1948. Today, far from being a celebrated feat of public welfare, each day brings a barrage of stories of closing hospital A&Es, cuts in funding, huge debts and an ageing population. Faced by a heavy funding deficit, demands vastly different to when the service was conceived, and shifts in politics and ideology, many believe the NHS is itself strapped to a life support machine...
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Can You Help Me, Dr Geek?
The first Digital Doctors Conference in London covered the basics of programming. Lis Evenstad found delegates enthusiastic about everything from learning HTML to generating ideas for apps. Read More »
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