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Tunstall Healthcare Awarded Two NHC Frameworks

Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Ltd has been awarded places on two new Consortium Procurement buying frameworks:
1. Framework for Technology Enabled Care Solutions - services including Installation, Service, Monitoring and Software
2. Framework for Technology Enabled Care Solutions - Products

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Ascom Speeds up Healthcare Response Times by Advanced Integration with Leading EHR Systems

Ascom, a leading supplier of Healthcare ICT solutions, is extending its Unite Messaging Suite® integration capability with leading EHR (Electronic Health Record) systems by enabling advanced alert messaging for patient admissions, discharges and transfers.

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Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Appoint Cerner as Preferred Supplier for Major Electronic Patient Record Programme

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust have committed to major investments in their information technology, including a significant infrastructure programme and procurement of a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

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The Perceived Threat and Real Opportunity of Personal Health Budgets

Opinion Article by Benjamyn Damazer, head of commissioning at NHS Shared Business Services.
Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) and personalised care are some of the most central components of the Five Year Forward View. People are to have more direct say in how money is spent on their individual care and wellbeing.

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A Personalized Virtual Heart Predicts the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

When electrical waves in the heart run amok in a condition called arrhythmia, sudden death can occur. To save the life of a patient at risk, doctors currently implant a small defibrillator to sense the onset of arrhythmia and jolt the heart back to a normal rhythm. But a thorny question remains: How should doctors decide which patients truly need an invasive, costly electrical implant that is not without health risks of its own?

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Online Therapy Effective at Treating Depression and Anxiety

Doctors from the University of Pittsburgh showed that providing an online computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) program both alone and in combination with Internet Support Groups (ISG) is a more effective treatment for anxiety and depression than doctors' usual primary care.

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Ingestible Robot Operates in Simulated Stomach

In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.

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Philips and UNFPA Collaborate to Transform Lives in Mandera County, Kenya

Royal Philips (NYSE: PGH, AEX: PHIA), in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today revealed its plans to inaugurate a Community Life Center (CLC) in Mandera, a County in North-Eastern Kenya with one of the world's highest maternal mortality ratio - 3,795 per 100,000 live births.

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New Photonics Technique to Eliminate Unnecessary Thyroid Cancer Surgery

A team of experts from around Europe has come together to develop a portable device with a hand-held probe that will dramatically reduce invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the treatment of thyroid nodules, saving approximately €450 million Euros every year.

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Alder Hey Children's Hospital Set to Become UK's First 'Cognitive' Hospital

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust today announced a ground-breaking multi-year collaborative programme with the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre, supported by IBM (NYSE: IBM), to create the United Kingdom's first 'cognitive' hospital by harnessing 'big data' and the power of IBM's Watson technology platform.

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