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Eduserve

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:20:58 GMT

We specialise in providing web hosting, web content management and development for public sector organisations.

We are a not-for-profit organisation and registered charity. We fulfil our charitable mission by providing services for the public benefit. This includes web services for public sector and education organisations.

Hytec

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:32:45 GMT

Hytec delivers information sharing solutions for UK health trusts. The infrastructure specialists of OLM Group, we specialise in information security, infrastructure management, systems integration and mobile applications. Recognised by CfH, our accreditations include ISO27001 and ISO9001, Microsoft Gold Partner, TigerScheme Company, Member of the BSI Consultant Programme, Socitm member.

Parity Medical

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:32:32 GMT

Parity Medical offers Computers on Wheels for Theatres and Wards designed with Infection Control in mind together with relevant peripherals,keyboards,displays and wall mounted solotions for IT hardware for MDT rooms and areas where space is limited. Parity has partnered with Philips offering their CareServant Patient Entertainment and Communication System.

BCS ASSIST

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:23:37 GMT

BCS ASSIST is a professional association for those working in and for informatics in healthcare and social care. Its objective is to develop professionalism and professional standards, and to work with other bodies including government to provide a voice for informatics professionals.

ASSIST is a member group of BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT.

Mind Your IT

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:51:11 GMT

Mind Your IT provide physical and software security solutions for IT equipment including; laptops, PCs, Peripherals, Data and Mobile devices such as Blackberrys.

Mind Your IT are dedicated to providing your Healthcare Institution maximum peace of mind and ensuring confidence that your IT investment is held in safe hands!

Xirrus

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:43:44 GMT

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Xirrus manufactures the Wi-Fi Array which integrates up to 16 access points into a single device, providing more than enough bandwidth, security, and control to replace a workgroup Ethernet switch with 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, power, space, and installation time compared with any other offering.

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2010 Exhibitors

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:33:24 GMT

The following suppliers will be showcasing the latest products and services available to the UK healthcare market today

ALERT Life Sciences Computing J5

BCS Assist M18

BigHand Ltd L4

Blueware Inc K5

Eduserv M19

Fibrezone K21

First Connections K11

Hytec J21

Imprivata Inc M4

iSOFT K3

Kainos L13

Man & Machine Europe L8

Meru Networks EMEA M22

Mind Your IT Limited L6

National Health Executive J19

NUANCE Healthcare Solutions K17

Oasis Medical Solutions K8

O2 J7

Olympus UK Ltd K9

Panasonic Computer Products Europe L5

Parity Medical L9

RIM J7

Salford Software K7

SMART J9

Sunquest Informations Systems J13

The Barcode Warehouse K14

ThinkShield Ltd L2

UK CHIP M14

WinScribe Europe L11

Xirrus K13

How we target visitors

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:13:18 GMT

Our highly targeted marketing campaign includes a wide range of activity across all platforms, including:

- 30,000 direct mail pieces targeting IT professionals and clinicians
- 200,000 emails using internal and partner lists
- National press adverts in The Guardian, GuardianSociety and Observer Business which reach a combined audience of 727,000 each week
- Advertisements and inserts in trade press including HSJ, Computing, National Health Executive and GC magazine
- Online adverts across GuardianSociety, GuardianTechnology and Kable websites with a combined reach of 994,000 unique visitors per month
- Extensive PR campaign running alongside marketing activity including the introduction of social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter
- Close ties with a number of national associations including UK CHIP, Soctim and BCS ASSIST
- Extensive reminder campaign including direct mail, email and telemarketing.

This is your best opportunity to reach senior ICT decision makers within healthcare and the public sector face-to-face.

Booking your exhibition stand and sponsorship package could not be easier. Simply call Jag Sandhu on 020 3353 4885 or email jagtar.sandhu@guardian.co.uk today.

Book your stand

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:13:18 GMT

Booking your stand and sponsorship package is quick and easy

To book your exhibition stand or to discuss sponsorship opportunities, please call Jag Sandhu on 020 3353 4885 or email jagtar.sandhu@guardian.co.uk today.

Why exhibit?

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:13:17 GMT

Smart Healthcare Live exclusively attracts healthcare ICT decision makers, ensuring you will reach a national audience who are committed to purchasing new products and services

Here are just 6 reasons why you should exhibit at Smart Healthcare Live:

1) Meet hundreds of potential customers face-to-face over two days
2) Raise your profile in a competitive market
3) Generate high quality leads and convert them to sales
4) Launch new products or services direct to the market
5) Network with the media, potential customers and industry figures
6) Demonstrate your products and answer queries from buyers

Please find below a small selection of job titles and organisations that attended Smart Healthcare Live 2009:

Director, Sussex Health Informatics Service
Deputy Director of ICT, The Royal Marsden Hospital
Head of IM&T, Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospital NHS Trust
Head of IT, Dudley Group of Hospitals
Head Of New Ways Of Working, Torbay Care Trust
ICT Technical Service Manager, United Lincolnshire Hospitals
Head of ICT Operations, Solihull Care Trust
IT Operations Manager, NHS Great Yarmouth & Waveney
Head of IT, NHS Stoke on Trent
ICT Change Manager Specialist, Portsmouth NHS
IT Manager, Benenden Hospital Trust
Information Architect, East Kent Hospitals University
Project Manager - information, NHS London - programme for IT
Head of ICT Services, Norfolk Mental Health
IM&T Director, Southampton University Hospitals
Head of IT Programme Management, Addenbrookes NHS Trust
Head of IT, Barnet Enfield & Haringey MHT

Booking your exhibition stand and sponsorship package could not be easier.
Simply call Jag Sandhu on 020 3353 4885 or email jagtar.sandhu@guardian.co.uk today.

Healthcare Talks

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:10:15 GMT

The Healthcare Talks sessions focussed on the key issues facing healthcare ICT today

Please find below the Healthcare Talks sessions that took place at Smart Healthcare Live 2009. To view the presentation content, please click on the link below each session.

Tuesday 9 June

OPENING KEYNOTE: The new healthcare landscape
Smart Healthcare.com podcast - highlights from Stephen O'Brien MP, the Conservative shadow health minister, talking about localising NHS IT procurement. Click here to listen.

Digital mapping for health
Ralph Smith, Senior Public Health Information Specialist, Sandwell PCT

To download the Digital mapping for health presentation, please click here.

Finding the right mobile solution
Marina Copping, Clinical Information Manager, NHS Lothian

To download the Finding the right mobile solution presentation, please click here.

Implementing single sign on and increasing security
Tunde Ishola, Head of IM&T, Winchester and Eastleigh NHS Trust

To download the Implementing single sign on and increasing security presentation, please click here.

Wednesday 10 June

Embedding Telehealth
Professor James Barlow, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management and Director of the Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre, Imperial College London

To download the Embedding telehealth presentation, please click here.

Revolution or Evolution – the development of acute hospital solutions for complex research and teaching establishments
James Thomas, ICT Director, University College London Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust

To download the Revolution or evolution - the development of acute hospital solutions for complex research and teaching establishments presentation, please click here.

Business intelligence for health
Martin Bell, Director of IM&T, North Bristol NHS Trust

To download the Business intelligence for Health presentation, please click here.

CLOSING KEYNOTE: Where is the National Programme for IT taking us? An interview with Martin Bellamy
Smart Healthcare.com podcast - A full recording of an interview between Martin Bellamy and SA Mathieson, editor of SmartHealthcare.com. Click here to listen.

Patient from Hell: There will be blood tests... eventually

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:00:00 GMT

The Patient from Hell gets impatient at how slowly blood samples from his ward are processed - and how staff blame the system

Day 157: During my recent week-long stay in "Fastrack Hospital", I suffered from a minor system failure. Not primarily a computer failure, but a communications failure between doctors, nurses, the pathology lab and the computer.

I hesitate to mention this, as there were many people in the ward who were really ill, and what happened to me was little more than an inconvenience. However, my grumble seemed to me a microcosm of some of the things that are wrong with system design in the NHS.

I was to get an hour-long drip of a powerful antibiotic in the morning and at night. I would go home during the day, and spend the night in hospital. But I had to have a blood test each morning, to check that my blood stream could take the antibiotic.

The trouble was that the nursing staff did not know how long the pathology lab would take to process the blood - anything from one to three hours - and whether the doctors could be accessed to give the OK that the drip should go ahead. As a result, the time of my intravenous injection slipped day by day, and I couldn't go home until about 3pm. It became hardly worth going home at all.

The process started when the phlebotomist did his round taking blood at around 11am. He was admirably careful. But it worried me how long he took to write the details on the many phials; a fiddly process which demands clear minuscule hand-writing, and absolute accuracy. His visit to the ward lasted nearly an hour. Whenever I have had my blood taken, I have asked myself how this manual transcription can be avoided, and my mind has boggled.

At Smart Healthcare Live last week, I found a solution, a stand flogging an application for phlebotomists, combining a mobile clinical assistant with a bar-code printer that clipped onto a belt. No more microscopic handwriting. The barcode was stuck onto the phial. The suppliers claimed that the application cuts down the recording time by 50%. And the barcode, being electronically readable, could be useful in the subsequent processing of the blood. Which a manual transcription on the phial would not. When I think of the number of blood tests I have to go through every month, I wonder why trusts have not adopted such an elementary techno-aid decades ago.

I used to grumble every day to the doctor on the ward round about my later and later release from the hospital each day, and he or she would promise to ask the nursing staff to speed the process. One nurse commented "what do the doctors know about what actually happens when we are dependent on another department". The nurses seemed to take the attitude that because the lab was unpredictable, they, the nurses, were in the hands of forces beyond their control, and therefore powerless to help me, the patient.

This seemed to be an echo of what Gerry Robinson found in his attempts to sort out a hospital trust three years ago: that there was a feeling among nurses, consultants and administrators that "the system" inhibited any improvement. When NHS staff feels that they are powerless to improve patient care because of "the system", then we should start worrying about how any NHS IT system can develop.

In a previous life, I used to sell project management software, which told me that the critical path in this process was the time spent in the lab. I wish that a training in project management for both doctors and nurses was obligatory, so they would recognise how processes can be slotted together. It could save the NHS a lot of wasted time and money, and the patients like me a lot of grief.

After two hours of waiting for the blood samples to be processed, the nurses on the ward had to interrogate the computer continuously to find the result, when they should have been soothing my fevered brow. I would have thought that a bit of push technology could have been appropriate here, such as an alarm going off on the ward's work-station to say that my blood had been processed. Then the nurses would not have had to call up the screen continuously.

Worse still, I discovered one day that the lab had failed to key into the computer that my blood was ready, and the nursing staff only found out by telephoning the lab, when I got stroppy with them. This seemed to me a sloppy system, which could do more harm than good because it was not properly operated.

Again, I apologise for bringing all this up. There was nothing life-threatening about the defects I have described. Everybody else on the ward was very ill, and humbled me by their stoicism, whereas I was just a day-tripper on the ward, and my treatment had, rightly, a low priority.

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While at Smart Healthcare Live, the Patient from Hell questioned Martin Bellamy, head of NHS Connecting for Health. His question, and Bellamy's answer, can be heard from 19:10 on the online recording of this session.

Audio: Smart Healthcare Live podcast

SA Mathieson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Highlights and interviews from this year's exhibition

The podcast includes highlights from Stephen O'Brien MP, the Conservative shadow health minister, talking about localising NHS IT procurement. It also includes interviews with Ralph Smith of Sandwell PCT on digital mapping, Marina Copping of NHS Lothian on mobile clinical assistants and Ken Lunn of NHS Connecting for Health on open source.

It concludes with Martin Bellamy, head of NHS Connecting for Health, talking about his plans to push forward the implementation of National Programme for IT hospital systems.

The full recording of Stephen O'Brien's speech is available here.

The full recording of Martin Bellamy's interview is available here.

SA Mathieson

'I never say it's easy or guaranteed': audio of Martin Bellamy at Smart Healthcare Live

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

A full recording of an interview between Martin Bellamy and SA Mathieson, editor of SmartHealthcare.com, at Smart Healthcare Live

This recording, made on 10 June 2009, includes the interview followed by questions from the audience.

Bellamy answered questions on the slow progress of the National Programme for IT, and his plans to get things moving, then on what has been learnt from the implementation of Cerner Millennium at Royal Free Hampstead.

The interview also covered why he believes that presumed consent is the best option for Summary Care Records, and the pros and cons of lacking a local service provider in the south of England.

Questions from the audience included a challenge over the National Programme's slow progress - to which Bellamy said that it would take another three years to extend systems to all trusts.

News story on this speech: Bellamy 'not proud' of CfH lateness

'A localised approach to NHS IT': audio of Stephen O'Brien MP at Smart Healthcare Live

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

A full recording of a speech by Stephen O'Brien at Smart Healthcare Live

This recording, made on 9 June 2009, includes Stephen O'Brien's speech and questions from the audience.

He discussed what he sees as the problems with NHS procurement, particularly around too much centralisation, then talked about this applies in particular to NHS IT.

O'Brien said that the Conservative Party, if elected, would decentralise NHS IT spending, allowing individual trusts a choice of computer systems.

He said that an independent review, which he commissioned, will be published this summer. He promised that it will inform Conservative thinking on NHS IT, and hoped other parties would use it in a similar way.

News story from this speech: Tories plan localised NHS IT