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Innovative and Secure Cloud Based Archiving Solution for European Hospitals

BridgeHead Software has joined forces with the European Centre of Expertise for the Health Care Industry EEIG to provide a unique data and storage management offering to European healthcare organisations known as the Shared Medical Archiving Solution (SMAS).

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Bradford District Care Trust Integrates Major Clinical Systems

Bradford District Care Trust (BDCT) has worked with its Integration Services Provider, ReStart Consulting, to complete the first phase in its initiative to integrate two major Clinical Systems, enabling the sharing of patient information between General Practitioners (GP)s and the Care Trust.

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Smarter Computing for Smarter Healthcare

The healthcare industry is shifting toward a performance-driven, outcomes-based model. Organizations face growing expectations for value and accountability and the rise of healthcare consumerism. They are pursuing collaborative approaches and increasing focus on patient centricity, wellness and prevention. As service delivery models expand at community, country and global levels, payer and provider boundaries are blurring.

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West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Order Ascribe Emergency Department Solution

Ascribe has announced the order of its Emergency Department (ED) solution, Ascribe Symphony, by West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (WSFT). Ascribe's ED solution is an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system designed to improve patient flow through the department,

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Shrewsbury and Telford Extends with Agfa HealthCare

Agfa HealthCare has signed a seven year contract extension with Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. The extension runs until December 2018 and includes a full upgrade of their current Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) across the whole trust moving from Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX 5.3 to IMPAX 6.5.

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Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chooses FairWarning

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS Trust to select FairWarning® Privacy Breach Detection solution to monitor and protect patient privacy, joining a growing number of NHS organisations that are taking proactive steps to counter serious data breaches and the improper accessing of Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

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Roll-Out of Carestream's Vue Motion Independent Viewer Complete At Spire Healthcare, UK

Carestream Health has completed the roll-out of its Vue Motion zero-footprint viewer at Spire Healthcare, the UK's second largest provider of private healthcare. As this independent viewer is PACS-agnostic, Spire consultants can now securely access PACS images across all of Spire's 37 locations via Apple iPad and other tablet devices irrespective of the fact that 27 hospitals operate Carestream RIS/PACS and 10 hospitals use Agfa RIS/PACS.

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Advanced Health & Care Shortlisted in EHealth Insider Awards 2012

Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), a leading provider of IT management systems for the health and care sectors, has been shortlisted in the 'Best use of mobile technology' category of the EHealth Insider (EHI) Awards 2012 in partnership with Medway Community Healthcare. This is the third year running that Advanced has been shortlisted in the EHI Awards.

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Carestream's New Vita XE CR Imaging System Available for Order

Carestream launched its new Vita XE CR Imaging System, which is now available for order worldwide. The tabletop computed radiography system produces diagnostic-quality images at a speed of 60+ plates per hour and is an ideal fit for smaller hospitals, imaging centres, clinics and private practices.

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SPHERAhospital Guarantees Clinical Safety for the Patients

SPHERAhospital has implemented the real time management of the patients' activities in the area of surgery in the Hospital Centro de Recuperación y Rehabilitación de Levante (CRRL). The implementation of the project provides an infrastructure for locating, identifying and tracking of patients using the technology SPHERAone, a Real Time Location System (RTLS), that doesn't interfere with other wireless technologies installed in the hospital.

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