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This week artificial organs how close are we to growing life-saving hearts, kidneys and

livers in the lab?

Plus in the news how hospital computer systems can save lives by the The Nano Coating to keep your toilets squeaky clean and most importantly

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powered by UKfast.co.uk. Now first this week increasingly hospitals around the world are

replacing paper-based notes in favor of electronic medical record systems

as well as the obvious advantages of being able to

better read what doctors have written and I ought to know because I am one, these

computer-based systems can also spot subtle trends in the data that are being stored on them that indicate that a

patient could be about to deteriorate and it can do this a lot sooner than a human can and then

sound the alarm.

Kate Honeyford has been looking at the results from One Healthcare Trust in London.

When the Hospital Trust adopted an electronic health record system they had the opportunity to

introduce a sepsis alert and we were analyzing whether the introduction of that alert

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