BBC: How technology is helping hospitals
BBC has an article covering the use of technology in hospitals. It comments on PACS, Speech Recognition, Touch Screens and Wifi:
As Britain's National Health Service celebrates its 60th birthday, new digital technology is revolutionising old working methods in a drive for greater efficiency.
The National Health Service has come a long way since its inception.
An x-ray is an old fashioned photograph which takes time to develop and then exists as an artefact that has to be physically passed around to everyone who needs it.
But having an x-ray taken at the Countess of Chester hospital in the north west of England no longer involves any film or photographic chemicals.
Instead a machine scans the image straight into a central database and makes it instantly available on the radiology ward and across the hospital in the consultant's office.
At this hospital the images are scrutinised by expert eyes on high-resolution screens and, while other hospitals are doing the same thing, in Chester they have gone one step further.
