It’s been a while since my last BLOG post… it has been a busy few months, not only for me but for UK Healthcare: The Coalition Government’s listening exercise on the NHS White Paper, The Future Forums report, the Government’s response and now the revised (debatable!) draft bill will make its way through parliament in [...]
In my previous MBA Dissertation revisited post I concluded with the statement: “few healthcare facilities are capable in terms of “…technical infrastructure (1.3), processes and trained resource…” to benefit from other AIDC technologies, e.g. Bar Codes.” In this post I consider chapter 6.1.3 “…RFID has benefits… over existing AIDC technologies, e.g. Bar Codes.”
NOTE: Original text from [...]
In my August 6th post Coding for Success Future? I mentioned my planned review of that Department of Health (DH) publication. In the intervening period the DH has published its own “Review of Coding for Success Implementation“, undertaken by the Auto-ID and Patient Safety National Oversight Group (APSNOG) . This post therefore reviews that review!
A recap: ““Coding for Success [...]
In 2006 I completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with Henley Business School when I wrote my dissertation:
Hypothesis: Medical Device manufacturer applied or embedded RFID has benefits to Patient Safety over existing Auto-ID technologies, e.g. Bar Codes.
In September that year I presented it at the GS1 Healthcare Global Conference held in Elancourt (Paris), France and in [...]
In my BLOG Post “Coding for Success future?” prompted by the DH publication “Liberating the NHS: Report of the arm’s- length review” that states “We propose to abolish the National Patient Safety Agency…” I was concerned, and continue to be so, that “…the drive to adopt AIDC to improve patient safety is not lost or ignored when the NPSA is abolished…” [...]
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The competition will run from 00:00 on Tuesday 3rd August 2010 until midnight on Thursday 30th September 2010 and is open to UK healthcare organisations only: e.g. pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, hospitals, pharmacies, GPs, etc.
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In my press release I mentioned a review of Coding for Success (the DH document published in 2007 advocating adoption of GS1 Standards (auto-identification and data capture (AIDC) technology, e.g. barcodes) to improve patient safety). I had planned for the review to be via a number of post sometime in the future, but the recent DH publication [...]
The NHSTrace BLOG will primarily be used to share the personal thoughts, ideas and opinions Janice Kite, Managing Director A.I.M. Consulting Ltd related to UK Healthcare, specifically to the benefits of implementation of GS1 standards-based auto-identification & data capture (AIDC, e.g. barcodes) and traceability to improve patient safety and organisational efficiency.
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