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Northampton General Hospital announces preferred EPR supplier – htn

  • December 11, 2023
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Northampton General Hospital (NGH) NHS Trust has announced the selection of its preferred electronic patient record supplier, with Nervecentre chosen to deliver a ten-year programme to “create exciting new opportunities to transform healthcare services at NGH and propel the trust’s digital capabilities to HIMSS level 5 and beyond.” The trust aims to begin deployment of […]

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NHS contract awarded to scale up virtual wards across West Yorkshire ICB – htn

  • December 11, 2023
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Inhealthcare has been awarded an NHS contract to scale up virtual wards across West Yorkshire. The new contract will see the company working with NHS West Yorkshire ICB to roll out a range of clinical services, with an aim to make improvements in areas including early discharge, reducing avoidable hospital admissions, and improving overall patient […]

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Healthcare robot with ‘sense of touch’ could reduce infection spread European hospital pilot launches to support clinicians with patient care – Digital Health Technology News

  • December 11, 2023
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A first-of-its-kind robot which gives clinicians the ability to ‘feel’ patients remotely has been launched as part of a Finnish hospital pilot by deep tech robotics company Touchlab, a new tenant of the world-leading centre for robotics and artificial intelligence the National Robotarium. Controlled by operators wearing an electronic haptic glove, the Välkky telerobot is […]

Tesla starts telling some Cybertruck orders to ‘prepare for delivery’

  • December 11, 2023
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A number of Cybertruck order holders have started getting “prepare for delivery” emails today, suggesting that Tesla might be getting Cybertrucks out to the public a little sooner than we expected. Tesla held its first Cybertruck delivery event late last month to deliver the first Cybertrucks, though there were only a small number delivered on […]

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Why Haven’t More Older Adults Gotten the R.S.V. Vaccine?

  • December 11, 2023
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Toby Gould was an early adopter. In September, Mr. Gould, 78, went to a pharmacy in Hyannis, Mass., to get one of the new vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus, known as R.S.V. He has asthma, which would heighten his risk of serious illness if he were to be infected. Carol Kerton, 64, knew R.S.V. could […]

Quick Charge Podcast: December 9, 2023

  • December 9, 2023
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Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee […]

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Homeless Advocate Takes On A.C.L.U., and It’s Personal

  • December 9, 2023
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On the last Thursday of August, Jennifer Livovich spent the morning simmering beans and cheese sauce in her Boulder, Colo., apartment, preparing nachos. Then friends helped her load a truck with the food, along with donations she had secured — socks, toothbrushes, cellphones — to distribute at a downtown park where dozens of chronically homeless […]