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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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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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