HIMSS Europe CIO Summit 2013
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12 - 14 November 2013, Madrid, Spain.The HIMSS Europe CIO Summit gathers leading IT Directors and Senior Healthcare IT Executives during a 2-day event in Madrid, Spain. Comparative benchmarking, adoption scoring, a hospital site visit and rich networking make this forum a must attend event for decision makers, seeking to drive healthcare delivery organisations towards effective users of information technology.
iPLATO Opens App Lab to Help CCGs and Hospitals Accelerate Mobile Innovation
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iPLATO Healthcare, a UK leader in cloud based mHealth and Analytics, has launched the iPLATO App Lab to respond to growing demand for designing and developing 'mobile first' strategies in digital healthcare. Leveraging its pre-eminent position as the innovator of mHealth applications and services in the UK Healthcare sector, along with years of developmental experience in mobile services, the company will open up its expertise to commissioner and provider partners on the iPLATO platform.
EMIS Group plc Acquires Digital Healthcare Limited
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The Board of EMIS Group has announced the acquisition of Digital Healthcare Limited, a leading provider of diabetic retinopathy screening and other ophthalmology-related solutions to community clinics, mobile units, specialist ophthalmology departments and practitioners. The acquisition is in line with EMIS' stated strategy of providing cross-organisational healthcare systems.
Smart Healthcare 2013
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IT and technology offer many opportunities to enhance the delivery of health services, improve the patient experience and advance integrated health. Kable's free to attend event has been designed to provide focused workshops and sessions to help you find the scalable, easy-to-implement solutions which will provide better health outcomes within stretched budgets and assist practitioners to manage services.
Patient Privacy Top Priority as Norway Rolls out National Summary Care Record
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The Norwegian Health Directorate has selected FairWarning® Patient Privacy Monitoring solution as an integral part of the national roll out of the Norwegian Summary Care Record (SCR). The deployment of the FairWarning solution will enable compliance to new legislation introduced in June 2013, which mandates the protection of patient privacy.
Opinion Article: Being Open to Open Source
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A new and frenzied debate has opened up in the world of healthcare technology- should NHS technology be open source? A move to open source would potentially mean vast reductions in licence fees for the NHS, the ability for the NHS to develop systems to their bespoke needs, no more supplier lock-in - which results in NHS organisations struggling to get the IT products they use to work with another supplier's - and of course, no need for "one size fits" all contracts such as we saw with the National Programme for IT.
Caradigm Supports Caldicott2 with UK Launch of its Clinical IT Solution
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Last Chance to Register for the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Digital Health Masterclass
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UZ Gent in Belgium Streamlines Nuclear Medicine Workflow with Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX
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Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with Ghent University Hospital (UZ Gent) in Belgium to implement its IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine solution, including the Oasis for IMPAX dedicated nuclear medicine workstation package, within the hospital. The solution is expected to be up and running by the end of 2013 and will complement UZ Gent's IMPAX Radiology Information System/Picture Archiving and Communication System (RIS/PACS).
iPLATO Hub to Help Government Boost Uptake of NHS Health Checks
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iPLATO Healthcare, a UK leader in cloud based mHealth and Analytics, welcomes the new government mandate to re-launch NHS Health Checks to reach 15 million patients over the next 5 years. In a number of trials in recent years the iPLATO service has proven to help engage target patients around NHS Health Checks and cost effectively reach screening targets.