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Orion Health Announces Global Launch of Amadeus Accelerates Move to Precision Medicine

Orion Health, the global technology company at the forefront of the revolution in healthcare, is firing up its offering by launching Amadeus, a platform that will enable highly personalised healthcare and the implementation of Precision Medicine.

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NHS Should Accelerate its Adoption of eInvoicing Following Government Spending Review

NHS organisations should reconsider their financial processes, including the benefits of eInvoicing, following the Government’s recent comprehensive spending review. This is the advice from leading business applications and services provider, Advanced Business Solutions (Advanced).

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NHS Informatics Clinician Joins IMMJ Systems as Non-executive Director

Pioneering clinical informatics specialist and retired surgeon Ian Linehan has joined the board of digital patient medical records supplier IMMJ Systems as non-executive director. IMMJ Systems develops scalable, intelligent information solutions for healthcare that deliver real value.

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Tunstall Healthcare and The Silver Line Work Together to Combat Loneliness Among Older People

Simon Arnold, Chief Customer Officer for Tunstall Healthcare presented a cheque for £25,000 to The Silver Line, a national charity that helps reduce loneliness in isolated, older people.

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Streamlined iOS App and Consumer Brand Launches for Digital Therapeutics Provider Physitrack

Apple (AAPL) recently announced it is working with a select group of business software and solution providers, including Physitrack (Bloomberg: 1297006D LN). Now the digital therapeutics company has launched a powerful new Physitrack iOS app for healthcare practitioners, and a new patient app, released under the separately trademarked brand name PhysiApp.

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Open Call SMEInst-06-2016-2017: Accelerating Market Introduction of ICT Solutions for Health, Well-Being and Ageing Well

The healthcare biotechnology sector offers huge business and commercial opportunities; however it also requires heavy and risky investments which are often lacking in Europe, hampering the development of the industry. The SME instrument consists of three phases, including a coaching and mentoring service for beneficiaries. Participants can apply to phase 1 or directly to phase 2.

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Agfa HealthCare and Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden, Sign Regional Enterprise Imaging Frame Agreement

Agfa HealthCare announces the signing of a framework agreement with Västra Götalandsregionen, Sweden, for a contract covering a radiology information system/picture archiving and communication system (RIS/PACS) for the region's 18 hospitals.

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NHS Set to Save Millions on Essential Prescribing Software through New Framework

The NHS will have the opportunity to save millions of pounds on important but traditionally costly IT prescribing systems that help healthcare professionals to choose the correct and most cost effective medicines for patients, following the launch of a new procurement framework from NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS).

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The Biggest Cost to Healthcare is not Learning from Best Practice

Opinion Article by Vivek Patkar, Chief Medical Officer, Deontics.
If the recent publication of the Atlas of Variation shows the human costs of unwarranted variation across the NHS; then The Kings Fund's Better Value in the NHS report showed the financial cost.

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Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2016-2017: Health, Demographic Change and Well-being

The headline goal of the 'Health, Demographic Change and Well-being' Societal Challenge is better health for all. Its main policy objectives are to improve health and well-being outcomes, to promote healthy and active ageing, to promote market growth, job creation, and the EU as a global leader in the health area. The challenges to this goal derive from the ageing of European population and lifestyle patterns,

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