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New EU Rapid Alert Platform for Human Blood and Blood Components

A new platform launched by the European Commission will improve the safety of patients that undergo medical treatment involving blood and blood products. National health authorities can use the web-based Rapid Alert system for Blood and Blood Components (RAB) that allows them to exchange information so that cross-border incidents are prevented or contained and immediate measures can be taken to ensure the safety of patients.

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Carestream's New Vue PACS Platform will Use Latest Windows/Intel Technology

Carestream will showcase upgrades to its healthcare IT portfolio at HIMSS 2014 as works in progress that include a new CARESTREAM Vue PACS and Vue for Vendor Neutral Archive with a Windows environment and 64-bit Intel® Xeon servers that can help enhance performance while reducing costs.

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Oracle Health Sciences Works with Nuance to Voice Enable Clinical Trials

Oracle has announced that Oracle Health Sciences will work with Nuance Communications, a leading provider of voice and language understanding solutions and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), to help simplify and accelerate data collection and management for clinical trials through state-of-the-art voice-to-text capabilities for web-based apps and mobile devices.

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Scottish Healthcare Professionals Access Patients' Key Information Summary through Clinical Portal

A third of Scotland's NHS health boards can now view more comprehensive information about their patients' condition, treatment and choices following the integration of the Key Information Summary (KIS) with their clinical portal. The integration will enable organisations that are part of Scotland's South-East Consortium which includes NHS Lothian, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Fife, and NHS Borders to improve communication between primary, secondary and out of hours care and enable key information and patient wishes to be more easily and quickly available to the appropriate healthcare professional.

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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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