Welcome Canterbury and RenalPlus

Canterbury has joined Renal PatientView and today has 2 patients enrolled. Welcome!

RPV is now working in units where their local renal computer system is based on Proton (Vitalpulse adaptation of CCL-Proton), Vitaldata (Vitalpulse), iSoft's Clinical Manager (Guy's and Salford units have adapted this locally), eMed (Mediqal HI), and Canterbury adds the first RenalPlus unit.
We hope that any remaining systems will link soon.
The photo of Canterbury Cathedral is licensed under Creative Commons

Patients online

Increasingly renal patients are writing online, as well as reading. Some examples highlighted on the UK Renal Association's newspages this week.
Soon we hope to make it possible for RPV patients to communicate with each other, and to add blood pressures and comments to their own records.
Happy New Year!

Strong Passwords

It is in users' own interests to use strong passwords. To help us all do that we have added a link to Password Meter from the password change pages. Please use this to help us keep your account and thus the whole site secure.

Rob Worth

New tests please

We hope to add these tests to RPV early in the new year:
bili, ast, alt, alp, ggt, ferritin, iron, transferrin, ironsat, urate
What else would you like? Some are difficult because they are recorded in so many different ways in different renal units, but we are also looking for a way to add occasional tests in a list a bit like the list of letters.

The RPV team were finalists at the BT-eHealth Insider Awards 2008, in the category 'Best use of ICT in patient and citizen involvement'.  We didn't win - but then we were up against two projects to do with sex education - but we had a great time. 

Keith Simpson, Neil Turner, Rob Worth, Maddy Warren, Andy Webb.