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Opinion Article: People, Politics and Personalities - How Changing Attitudes is the Final Step to Integrated Care

By Andy Clegg, Clinical Specialist, Orion Health
Integrating health and social care has been on the national agenda for over 20 years and despite the introduction of various policies, strategies and initiatives to deliver it, we are still not there yet. The well-documented drivers for joining up health and social care, such as capacity issues in acute hospitals and people living longer, is resulting in a situation which is unsustainable, meaning the way we deliver care should change in a radical way.

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First RayStation® Order in the United Kingdom

RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ.) has been awarded a contract to supply its RayStation® treatment planning system (TPS) to Tayside Cancer Centre, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School in Dundee, UK. Ninewells will be the first clinical installation of RayStation® in the United Kingdom. Ninewells Hospital & Medical School is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe. It has a comprehensive regional cancer centre serving the Tayside region of Scotland.

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High-Level Free Webinars from HIMSS Europe

HIMSS Europe hosts educational webinars on a regular basis with speakers from hospital management, government decision makers and HIMSS experts. The innovative new HIMSS Europe Industry Thought Leader webinar program is about to commence in February. It is a great chance to learn about the major issues in health IT from its true thought leaders.

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Healthcare Industry Joins Forces to Create New Digital Services

Twenty-one leading healthcare organisations have joined a formal partnership to tackle the nation’s healthcare challenges by accelerating growth in the digital healthcare market. Founded and led by D Health, the partnership known as ‘the Catalyst’ involves major brands Celisio (owners of Lloyds Pharmacy) and Johnson and Johnson's LifeScan. Other founding members include SMEs such as Isansys, Grey Matters and Cardio QT and healthcare providers Red House Practice Group, Just Checking and Physiomedics.

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Enhancing eHealth, Active Ageing and Independent Living Project Results Towards H2020

A remarkable number of results have been generated by research and innovation projects in the domains of eHealth, Active Ageing and Independent Living. HAIVISIO project aims at helping those projects to set a common strategy for joint dissemination and exploitation activities, through the organization of events and training courses and the facilitation of an online community.

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The WoHIT 2014 Early Bird Rate Ends 28 February 2014

2 - 4 April 2014, Nice, France.
Register now and save up to €100. European and IT healthcare leaders will descend on Nice to discuss how IT can improve the safety and quality of care of patients. Presenters from Europe and beyond will share successful and innovative eHealth solutions that make it possible for patients and providers to access healthcare everywhere. WoHIT 2014 will combine the following three audiences: influential European C-Suites, Nordic countries looking to invest and a new French audience that is ready to engage to upgrade legacy platforms.

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Largest Global mHealth App Developer Survey

For the fourth consecutive year research2guidance, in collaboration with Continua Health Alliance, is conducting a global market research about mobile Health applications to uncover their potential. Are you developing or publishing apps that help patients to manage their disease better, organize doctor's appointments, send medical reminders, track steps, monitor blood pressure levels or provide medical imaging solutions for radiologists? Are you an mHealth expert, a healthcare professional using mHealth apps for your work or a manager in a Pharma, Med-Tech or Health Insurance company that oversees mHealth activities?

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High-Tech 'Whole Body' Scan could Improve Treatment of Bone Marrow Cancer

The new type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan could improve care for a type of cancer called myeloma and reduce reliance on bone marrow biopsies, which can be painful for patients and often fail to show doctors how far the disease has spread. The research was published in the journal Radiology and was carried out by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. It received funding from Cancer Research UK and the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Facility in Imaging, with additional funding from the EPSRC.

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Northumbria Successfully Implements New Patient Administration System

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has successfully implemented a new patient administration system (PAS). Silverlink PAS replaced the previous McKesson TotalCARE system which the trust had been using for 17 years. The trust had been planning for the new system since the seven-year contract was awarded to Stalis Ltd in December 2011. It included the use of the STALIS CareXML® product for the data migration and business intelligence systems.

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Opinion Article: Collaboration is the Future

By Shane Tickell, CEO, IMS MAXIMS.
In the late 1980s, after the NHS started going through its largest period of change, I began working for a women and children's hospital, which was part of a larger group. At this time we were using a workflow system that was locally hosted on our site, however you could centrally report on all the individual hospitals. Despite being able to successfully administer our patients, manage our stock control, procedures and billing, we were missing the detailed patient notes - which were on paper.

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