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Scarborough Care Home's Pioneering use of Telecare

St. Cecilia's, a residential home caring for people living with dementia, which uses telecare monitoring equipment from Tunstall Healthcare, has been short-listed for a national award for the positive impact of telecare on its elderly residents.

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IMI Builds Collaborations to Monitor Vaccine Safety and Drug Effectiveness

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is calling experts to join forces and tackle two challenges which are of major importance to public health. Measuring the combined benefits and risks of vaccines and assessing the effectiveness of new medications in the real world setting are the focus of the Call for proposals that IMI has launched.

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CSC Wins e-Whiteboard Contract at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

CSC (NYSE: CSC) will roll out its e-whiteboard solution to a further 27 wards at Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital, under a four-year contract with Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest acute trusts in England.

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Western Sussex NHS Trust Improves Patient Safety and Quality of Care

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust has deployed a solution from Patientrack that is helping the trust more quickly identity deteriorating patients or patients who should be moved to palliative care. The solution, deployed on all 38 wards across the trust's two hospital sites, allows more than 2000 nurses, doctors and other clinical staff to electronically record observations at the bedside,

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iPLATO and Docobo Mobilise to Meet the Needs of CCGs

Docobo and iPLATO Healthcare announced an alliance aimed at offering a comprehensive solution that allows clinical commissioners as well as public and community health teams to deliver systematically improved evidence based disease prevention across populations, improve patient care and avoid unnecessary admissions to secondary care.

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Lewisham NHS Trust Adopts CSC's NextGen Pathology Solution

Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust has become one of the first trusts to adopt CSC’s (NYSE: CSC) next-generation laboratory solution under a project to overhaul cellular pathology services across the new organization, formed by the merger of acute and community services in Lewisham.

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Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Selects FairWarning®

One of the most proactive NHS trusts in England in terms of its innovative use of information technology, has selected FairWarning® Privacy Breach Detection solution to counter the growing threat of serious data breaches and the improper accessing of electronic health records (EHRs).

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Successful Use Of CARESTREAM DRX-1 Technology Drives Change in Imaging Strategy

Successful use of the CARESTREAM DRX-1 System has led to a change in imaging strategy for Flemish-speaking UZ Brussel Hospital in Belgium, one of seven prestigious university hospitals in the country.

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Opinion Article: HILPs, O2 and Patient Safety

By Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive of the GGI (Good Governance Institute).
Last Wednesday was busy. I had squeezed a quart of endeavour into a pint-pot of time and with a 20 minute walk down Regent Street between two meetings I reached for my iPhone to make a couple of pressing calls. No service - again. Since lunchtime I had consistently failed to get a signal and now things were beginning to stack up.

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HIMSS Europe CIO Summit 2012

18 - 20 November 2012, Mallorca, Spain.
The 3rd annual HIMSS Europe CIO Summit will focus on the new role of the CIO and go more in depth on specific work areas for the CIO such as mobile health, web 2.0, change management and chronic disease management.

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