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It's time for the hospital doctor to embrace IT
Dr Paul Shannon argues that hospital doctors should emulate their GP
colleagues and make full use of IT for the benefits it can bring in
improving healthcare. 8 Feb 2010
In search of new
healthcare frontiers
Dr Kathy
McLean of NHS East Midlands looks at how healthcare providers
can make best use of the £220m innovation funding from the Department of
Health to improve working practices and deliver high quality patient
care. 11 Jan 2010
 Enhancing
the patient experience through IPTV
IPTV uses a hospital's existing computer network to supply high quality
digital TV channels and video services not just to the bedside but to
any part of the organisation, including patient areas and staff. The
system can supply a range of additional services such as phone,
Internet, patient information, and staff training. It is also, says
Colin Farquhar of Exterity, the ideal solution to the problem of the
national digital TV switchover.
Sussex Healthcare
Informatics Service remotely manages 22,000 networked devices
Sussex Health Informatics Service (HIS) has completed a rollout of the
world's largest deployment of Novell’s ZENworks that supports the
network services for some 22,000 devices and 36,000 users across ten NHS
Trusts in Sussex.
Secure information systems are the foundation for co-ordinating
health and social care
As our aging population continues to grow, health and social care
organisations need to work closer to provide patients with better care.
Alan Hunt of Hytec outlines some of the current
initiatives for co-ordinated care, and explains how safer information
sharing is a key factor.
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