+++ 4.59 pm | Patient check-in system on iPad +++
Savience have produced a version of their patient check-in system for the iPad. It displays the same screens as the fixed check-in terminals. It enables extra staff to walk round patients during periods of heavy activity to clear the queues waiting for check-in.
+++ 4.48 pm | Tracking system protects new born babies in hospital +++
Motorola has launched a baby identification system that tracks the activities needed to care for an infant. Designed by a midwife, the system uses barcoded wristbands in conjunction with handheld PDA scanners. It can track, verify, monitor, and log all actions and procedures involving newborns during their stay in hospital, including milk management. Through 'positive' patient identification, it ensures the right care is given to the right baby by the right person.
+++ 4.33 pm | CSE wins contract to supply emergency department system to Royal Cornwall Hospitals +++
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded CSE Healthcare Systems a contract to supply an emergency department information system. CSE will supply Oceano, its new hospital patient management system, to the emergency and casualty departments at Royal Cornwall Hospital and West Cornwall Hospital. The system will provide triage, ordering, observations, clinical documentation, discharge, coding, reporting and patient tracking using interactive whiteboards, tracking lists and floor plans.
+++ 4.24 pm | University Hospitals Birmingham launches new version of Healthcare Evaluation Data +++
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has produced a new version of its online data evaluation tool. Produced in-house by the Trust, the HED delivers real-time information for healthcare organisations. It enables users across the NHS to monitor, compare and evaluate hospital performance indicators. It benchmarks performance using data from 2001-2010 against other healthcare organisations and allows healthcare providers to react immediately to changes in health
legislation, policies and targets.
+++ 1.43 pm | Time to rethink healthcare and ICT +++
Professor Terry Young of Brunel University asked the HC2011 delegates why ICT projects go wrong so often. He was speaking at a session on 'Thinking differently about informatics'. He said "we have gone crazy about data and records", but are "still not really changing healthcare compared to manufacturing". A lot of ICT companies are interested in data mining "to death" but don't want to know too much about what is going on at a clinical level, he said. Professor Young is taking part in the Cumberland Initiative which aims to address these issues by to looking at the power of simulation and modelling to address key health areas such as orthopaedics, COPD, urgent care, commissioning and rapid operational learning.
+++ 1.39 pm | Improving patient safety using prescribing decision support +++
Dr Neill Jones, Clinical Director at First DataBank, lead a lively session on the role of decision support in implementing the medication related guidelines developed by the National Patient Safety Agency. It looked specifically at the recommendations created by the National Reporting and Learning Service (NRLS). The NRLS develops advice for
clinicians and healthcare organisations based on analysis of reports of patient safety incidents across the NHS. Specific examples covered included how prescribing decision support can prevent fatalities from medication loading doses and tackle dosing errors with opioid medicines. Dr Jones articulated the practical support available right now to dramatically influence patient outcomes and reduce medication related errors.
+++ 1.01 pm | West Cumberland Hospital goes live with Savience check-in screens +++
Clinical management systems specialist Savience has announced that West Cumberland Hospital in north west England has gone live this week with the company's Assure check-in screens. Patients at the hospital can check themselves in for appointments and also update their demographic details to keep records up to date. Roger Everitt, managing director of Savience, said, "The touchscreens don't just record patient's arrival at clinic, they provide an entry point to the whole system that streamlines the appointment process for patients and staff alike."
+++ 12.54 pm | Bridgehead Software releases white paper on healthcare data storage +++
Bridgehead Software has released a new white paper outlining the challenges and best practices around building a healthcare data archive. The paper, 'Strategies to reduce the cost of managing healthcare data' offers practical advice to hospitals on how to leverage the strengths of data archiving to optimise storage assets. "For hospitals, the 'keep everything' strategy and the short-term tactic of 'throwing more disk' at it are quickly losing appeal and are arguably no longer applicable, proving both costly and unsustainable in the long term," said Charles Mallio, Vice President, Product Strategy and Business Development of Bridgehead Software. "We advocate a new approach."
+++ 12.45 pm | Evolving role for Care Quality Commission +++
"The Care Quality Commission is evolving and adapting the tools used to monitor the performance of NHS trusts," said Richard Hamblin, Director of Information at the CQC. He was speaking in a session on the implications for information flows of the new landscape for organisations and management, responsibility and accountability in the NHS. The CQC's Quality Risk Profile uses sophisticated tools to gather all numerical and textual information about every care provider in the UK and align it to 16 essential standards. It is used to estimate risk and guide the CQC inspectors. NHS trusts themselves find it useful, with 150 of them using it to report to board meetings," he said.
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Source: HealthTech Wire
