Progress with delivering the Emergency Services Network
National Audit Office -According to this report, plans for a new communication network for emergency services have fallen further behind schedule, with the Home Office spending almost £2 billion on it since the programme began in 2015. The new Emergency Services Network will enable every police, fire, and ambulance service across England, Scotland and Wales to continue to communicate by voice and data, between the field and control rooms.ReportNational Audit Office - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 8, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
Clevermed and its BadgerNet Solution Join the System C Family
System C acquires leading health tech business, Clevermed
Edinburgh-based Clevermed, the pioneering health tech company, today confirmed its acquisition by System C, one of the UK’s leading providers of hospital-wide software for the NHS. The acquisition will unlock growth and investment for its flagship product, the mother and baby health system, BadgerNet.
Currently, nearly all babies in neonatal units in the UK have their details in BadgerNet. In addition, by the end of 2023 it is estimated that 45% of UK pregnancies will be recorded on BadgerNet. Along with clinical access, every day the system supports over 40,000...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Badger Notes BadgerNet Clevermed Electronic Maternity Records Electronic Neonatal Records Health Boards and Trusts Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jane Stephenson Neonatal Care Neonatal Unit Source Type: blogs
Choosing the best Mastodon server
TL:DR – There are lots of Mastodon servers, choosing the best is down to personal needs. Choose one in your niche that has a good number of users, more than one admin, and a good financial base.
If you’re new to Mastodon, then have a quick read of my Mastodon FAQ to get an idea of what it’s all about.
Social media tool Mastodon is essentially a network of connected websites all running the same software. Users refer to these websites as instances. You can think of an instance as being a specialist group on another famous social media system. But each instance or server is owned and managed independently ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Social Media Source Type: blogs
Minimum service levels in event of strike action: ambulance services in England, Scotland and Wales
Department of Health and Social Care - The DHSC is seeking views during passage of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill on, subject to Parliamentary approval, introducing regulations on minimum service levels in England, Scotland, and Wales to support minimum service levels in the health service during strike action to protect patient safety. The consultation closes at 11:45am on 9 May 2023.Consultation documentMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 15, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Consultations Patient safety Source Type: blogs
13 Year Old McAllen
BY IAN MORRISON
As a Scot, obviously I am a whisky fan, and although I prefer the smoky malts of Islay (where my grandfather was from and where I visit my friends there frequently), I am also a huge fan of McCallan 18-year-old whisky, the sticky toffee pudding of single malts.
But as all policy wonks know, McAllen Texas is not famous for whisky but for Atul Gawande’s “Cost Conundrum” article in the New Yorker, in 2009 which is still required reading in medical school and MPH classes and was arguably the cornerstone of Obama health policy and the ACO movement.
Dr. Atul Gawande described overutilization and hi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: The Business of Health Care Affordable Care Act Atul Gawande Ian Morrison McAllen Texas Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - mostly COVID related
The last collection of things you may want to know about. Firstly, COVID related:Asystematic review and meta-analysis of neonatal outcomes of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy, published in Pediatric Research.Another,of the effectiveness and safety of COVID-19 vaccine in pregnant women, published in BJOG.Then, apopulation based matched cohort study of major congenital anomalies following COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection - two separate groups, using health records from Scotland, published in Nature Communications.Anda sequential prospective meta-analysis of clinical risk factors of adverse outcomes a...
Source: Browsing - January 26, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Which Mastodon server should I use?
If you’re new to Mastodon, then have a quick read of my Mastodon FAQ to get an idea of what it’s all about. Once you’ve done that or if you’re ready to dive in, here’s a list of the instances/servers that are most commonly being used by the people I followed on twitter who added a Mastodon ID or link to their bio and I could find via Debirdify.
Because they’re all federated you can see what’s happening on other instances, but you might want to opt for an instance in your area to begin with, or perhaps one where you know contacts and colleagues are already active.
I first tried Mast...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - December 17, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Social Media Source Type: blogs
A Wonderful Sign Of High IQ
The study tracked 65,765 people born in Scotland in 1936 for 79 years. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Intelligence Source Type: blogs
Popular Mastodon servers
I periodically scan my Twitter crowd to see who has added their Mastodon ID to their bio. I recommend doing so, if you want people to find you:
@sciencebase@mastodon.social
The Debirdify site (and Twitodon, Fedifinder) lets you find people from your Twitter lists, which can include the list of people you follow and your followers if you wish, who have added a link or Mastodon ID.
Incidentally “mastodon.social” is just a website address not really any different to sciencebase.com, just that the top-level domain, the bit after the dot, is social instead of com.
Anyway, the Top 20 most popular Mastodon servers/ins...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 29, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Social Media Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 2nd November 2022 - research
Infant feedingText message-based breastfeeding support compared with usual care: a randomized controlled trial (librarian intervention or payment needed for access to full text)DeliverySufentanil for spinal analgesia during cesarean section delivery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsMonofilament suture versus braided suture thread to improve pregnancy outcomes after vaginal cervical cerclage (C-STICH): a pragmatic randomised, controlled, phase 3, superiority trialGestational diabetesExercise during pregnancy for preventing gestational diabetes mellitus and hypertensive disorders: An...
Source: Browsing - November 2, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 24 October, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----This week it is all about your and my data being spurted all over the place by Government and corporates. It is a huge mess and will need real work from all to sort out!-----https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/leadership/australian-institute-of-company-directors-launches-first-steps-towards-cyber-security-regulation/news-sto...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
TWiV 945: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses a healthcare-associated infection with Monkeypox virus, air and surface sampling for monkeypox virus in a UK hospital, misrepresentation and nonadherence regarding COVID19 public health measures, tolerability and immunogenicity of an intranasally-administered adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine, clinical, virologic, and immunologic evaluation of symptomatic rebound following Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir treatment, early outpatient treatment with Eemdesivir in patients at high risk for severe COVID-19, Molnupiravir plus usual care versus usual care alone as early treatme...
Source: virology blog - October 15, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation influenza Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –24th September, 2022.
This article makes the case and explains what will be required to make it happen.We hear a lot about “digital health” these days. As data about our health piles up — thanks to sources like electronic health records, personal fitness apps and gadgets, and home genome test kits — weshould understand a lot more than we used to about what ’s wrong with our health and what to do about it. But having a lot of data is not enough. We have to be aware of what we have, understand what it means, and act on that understanding. While the challenges are in some ways more acute in the United States because of its fragmented sys...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Walk to reduce your loneliness and improve your well-being [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Just before the pandemic, I walked 96 miles (154.5 km) in seven days on the West Highland Way in Scotland, though I was hardly alone in this endeavor. About 250 people start the walk each day, including the amazing group of primary women that
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Walk to reduce your loneliness and improve your well-being [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 21, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Geriatrics Source Type: blogs
