“It’s said that an apple a day keeps the doctor away – but that’s now the opposite at a Teesside hospital,” Ian McNeal reports for GazetteLive. “Doctors and nurses at James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, are using Apple iPods and iPads to record vital health information about patients”
“A new report by trust chief executive Tricia Hart says the scheme, which is now being rolled out across the hospital, can provide major benefits,” McNeal reports. “In her report, due to be discussed at a board of directors meeting tomorrow, Ms Hart said: ‘The key benefits of the system is the more rapid identification of deteriorating patients which in pilot sites has led to a reduction in hospital and critical care length of stay and a reduction in mortality – all of which are a huge benefit to both patients and clinicians. Acute adult inpatient wards in both James Cook and the Friarage are included in the project and the first ward which went live on 23 June – ward 3 at James Cook – was paperless within three days of dual recording.'”
McNeal reports, “The rollout will be phased over the coming months.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Technology intelligently deployed in the interest of the public health. Florence Nightingale would have approved.
Anyone gone to that web page?
If you do, you will see a brown patch of newly dug up earth, I reckon that is where they have buried their antediluvian technology!
I suppose the news desk wanted the hospital’s sign in view and so sent out a photographer — too bad that the grounds crew had dug out the colourful hyacinths; maybe the smog did them in. Ugly photo of the place as a result, no wonder they combined it with a shot of the administrator.
Aw, c’mon. Everyone knows iPods and iPads are only good for saving Angry Birds. That’s why it’s being claimed that both of those product lines are failing. You can read that anywhere you look.
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Unfortuntely, the iPad will be discredited will killing more than it saves with its EMF HF fallout, especially in schools where children have weak immune systems. My HF35C shows that my iPadair puts out even more HF radiation than my Mac, caused by switch mode power supply. Grounding it does not stop the radiation.
F**k the children. And you too.
I guess they’ll have to stop the hospital porters using their 5W PMR radios too. Oh, and while they’re about it, they should remove all the bedside patient TV systems as well.
Feck it: let’s just remove all patient monitoring gizmos, all other electronic devices and drop a Faraday cage around the whole bloody shebang!
You, sir, are as mad as a box of soapy frogs!
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Superb !
I hope they extend this scheme to North Tees Hospital too. Poor sods there, like most NHS hospitals, are still saddled with XP Pro
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Hey, more radiation is going through our bodies from the sun than our technology could put out. It’s been like like that since humans evolved. So it probably isn’t good.
It’s a lot worse than you think, have you looked at the digression rate of the Earth’s magnetosphere lately?! (Seriously)
Anyway, very good to hear about the best technology being utilized to improve healthcare.
Could you elaborate please, never heard of this issue.
Solar emissions of high energy particles follow an 11 year cycle which are classified as solar max and solar minimum. We are currently experiencing solar max levels whilst in the solar minimum cycle, though compared to other solar max cycles they are not historically high.
Some think this pressages a polar reversal of the magnetosphere, whose effects are either likely catastrophic or mildly inconvenient, dependant on your glass half full/half empty inclination
The original headline: “James Cook University Hospital workers using iPods and iPads to record patient information”
The MDN headline: “Apple iPads credited with reduction in mortality rates at James Cook University Hospital”
The article points out both of these features (patient information and reduction of mortality rates.
THANK YOU MDN. That’s the spirit of headline I’ve been talking about. Keep it up.