InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected healthcare, has announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is using InterSystems HealthShare® to support key specialist care services. HealthShare is a health informatics platform that enables strategic interoperability and analytics for action across a hospital network, community, region, or nation.
9 - 10 October 2014, Florence, Italy.
Agfa HealthCare is a winner of Premier, Inc.'s Supplier Legacy Award for operational excellence and builds on a relationship between Agfa HealthCare and Premier that spans nearly two decades. The award recognizes the company as a leader in healthcare IT for its "gold standard" enterprise imaging solution, ICIS, and additional IT solutions and service offerings.
OpenTele, a home healthcare monitoring project that is being successfully piloted in Denmark, is available as open source. The Danish government is planning to implement the software all over the country, starting next year. The software is available on Github and can be re-used by health care organisations in other countries.
Traumatic brain injuries affect 1.6 million people in the EU every year. 70,000 don't survive and a further 100,000 are left with a permanent disability. An EU-funded project - with partners in Finland, France, Lithuania and the UK - is collecting data from hundreds of patients who have suffered brain trauma and using it to build software which will improve diagnosis and predict the outcome of treatments.