You can't have a hospital system with no communication co-ordination. Patrick Cryne, MD with iSOFT, a hospital information systems operator, said security and patient confidentiality could slow growth in communication technologies like wireless...
Frary added: "We've even enabled a team of midwives with three laptops and three PDAs - we'll get them to start using email and accessing hospital resources, and then we'll consider giving them access to hospital systems.
iSoft, a company dogged with questions over accountancy practices, has won a major contract to revamp the health systems of a Spanish county. The Ministry of Health and Social Services for the Spanish region of Cantabria is paying iSoft to design...
The new network is expected to enable hospital staff to log on and work anywhere in the buildings via laptops, PDAs and IP phones. University Hospital of North Stafford chairman Mike Brereton said in a statement: "This area has been in need of new...
The hospital is planning to give 3G-enabled laptops to 75 of its midwives who work remotely, providing services to pregnant patients in their homes in Liverpool. With the new laptops, midwives will be able to access hospital systems and input...
September 2008: Four CDs containing the details of almost 18,000 staff are lost as they are moved between the wages department of Whittington Hospital NHS Trust and payroll company. June 2008: A laptop containing unencrypted details of 21,000...