Siemens Healthcare introduces syngo Ultrasound Breast Analysis, a software application for offline review of images, volumes and clips produced with the Acuson S2000 Automated Breast Volume Scanner (ABVS) and the Acuson S2000 ultrasound system. The software offers comprehensive image processing and reporting tools designed to improve breast ultrasound quality and workflow.
By Kurt Long, Founder and CEO of FairWarning, Inc.
The modern NHS stands at the threshold of a major opportunity to transform patient services through the innovative application of healthcare technologies. In fact current efforts to integrate health and social care provide a powerful catalyst to ensure that the NHS maintains its global reputation as a provider of world-class healthcare, and the ambitions laid out in the UK Government's recent Information Strategy are a great example of this.
Patient's current and historical records, sourced across multiple clinical IT systems, can now be accessed via a new web-based solution called CareInform. Developed by Stalis, a provider of 'end to end' data and resource management solutions, it offers users across all health and social care settings a complete long-term view of a patient's health conditions and treatments based on a single integrated repository.
EyeBrain, a company that develops brain function markers for neurological and psychiatric conditions, announces the launch of a new application to measure eye movement disorders in children when reading. This new medical software, known as "Reading Application", enables specialists to automatically and quickly assess eye movement parameters in their patients when reading and in particular pinpoint disorders affecting the control of both eyes.
The European Commission has unveiled an Action Plan to address barriers to the full use of digital solutions in Europe's healthcare systems. The goal is to improve healthcare for the benefit of patients, give patients more control of their care and bring down costs. While patients and health professionals are enthusiastically using telehealth solutions and millions of Europeans have downloaded smartphone apps to keep track of their health and wellbeing, digital healthcare has yet to reap its great potential to improve healthcare and generate efficiency savings.
Health Ministers from the Global Health Security Initiative met in Berlin to discuss the future priorities to strengthening global health security. The Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI) is an informal, international partnership between France , Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the United States, the European Commission and the World Health Organisation, established in 2001 to strengthen health preparedness and response globally to threats of biological, chemical, radio-nuclear terrorism (CBRN) and pandemic influenza.
4 - 6 July 2013, London, UK.
MEDXPO 2013 is the international medical and hospital equipment exhibition and congress comprised of plenary, conference, workshop and round table sessions that serve and connect the broad disciplines of the healthcare spectrum.
InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, announced that Beckman Coulter, one of the world's leading manufacturers of clinical diagnostic equipment, is using InterSystems Ensemble® to improve the way samples are processed in hospital laboratories around the UK. Ensemble is a platform for the rapid integration and development of connectable applications.
A software tool called PredictAD developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland promises to enable earlier diagnosis of the disease on the basis of patient measurements and large databases. Alzheimer's disease currently takes on average 20 months to diagnose in Europe. VTT has shown that the new method could allow as many as half of patients to get a diagnosis approximately a year earlier.
Cutting costs today often means postponing fundamental investments and opportunities to reduce debt, secure better care, and provide broader access. Collectively, we must invest in preventіon and provide better care through innovation and efficiencies. Rapidly ageing population requires a shift towards pervasive social services, the deliіvery of cure and care beyond the boundaries of hospitals and shaping polices and services for healthier cities.