The Central Finland Health Care District was the first health care district to introduce the patient information system according to the new Finnish Health Care Act. In addition to the Central Finland Health Care District, Tieto's system covers patient information for almost all of the health centres in the region.
NHS Tameside and Glossop has partnered with Tunstall Healthcare to deploy a fully-managed telehealth service, which will enhance care provision for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and help the Trust meet QIPP targets.
27 - 28 October 2011, Berlin, Germany.
Plymouth NHS ICT Shared Service has established an industry-standards-based approach that integrates the IT for the cross-organisational care services that it supports. This has enabled its users to protect existing investments, streamline care processes, reduce costs and improve clinical outcomes.
eHealth Week 2011, the largest annual gathering of the pan-European eHealth communities, was held from Tuesday May 10th through Thursday May 12th last week in Budapest. The event brought together more than 2,300 delegates from 60 countries to participate in the numerous sessions and events of the week and share and discuss initiatives to promote the roll-out of health IT across the healthcare eco-system.
Agfa HealthCare announces that long-term customer Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL) will implement IMPAX for Cardiology, IMPAX for Radiology and IMPAX Enterprise. This is the first time the three picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) will be implemented at the same time, creating a fully integrated, interdisciplinary system.
iSOFT Group Limited (ASX:ISF) has agreed contracts with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust for its strategic e-prescribing and medicines management (ePMA) solution and follows an agreement to extend its contract for iSOFT's PatientCentre patient administration system for a further five years.