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Carestream's New Vue PACS Platform will Use Latest Windows/Intel Technology

Carestream will showcase upgrades to its healthcare IT portfolio at HIMSS 2014 as works in progress that include a new CARESTREAM Vue PACS and Vue for Vendor Neutral Archive with a Windows environment and 64-bit Intel® Xeon servers that can help enhance performance while reducing costs.

Oracle Health Sciences Works with Nuance to Voice Enable Clinical Trials

Oracle has announced that Oracle Health Sciences will work with Nuance Communications, a leading provider of voice and language understanding solutions and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), to help simplify and accelerate data collection and management for clinical trials through state-of-the-art voice-to-text capabilities for web-based apps and mobile devices.

Scottish Healthcare Professionals Access Patients' Key Information Summary through Clinical Portal

A third of Scotland's NHS health boards can now view more comprehensive information about their patients' condition, treatment and choices following the integration of the Key Information Summary (KIS) with their clinical portal. The integration will enable organisations that are part of Scotland's South-East Consortium which includes NHS Lothian, NHS Dumfries and Galloway, NHS Fife, and NHS Borders to improve communication between primary, secondary and out of hours care and enable key information and patient wishes to be more easily and quickly available to the appropriate healthcare professional.

Opinion Article: People, Politics and Personalities - How Changing Attitudes is the Final Step to Integrated Care

By Andy Clegg, Clinical Specialist, Orion Health
Integrating health and social care has been on the national agenda for over 20 years and despite the introduction of various policies, strategies and initiatives to deliver it, we are still not there yet. The well-documented drivers for joining up health and social care, such as capacity issues in acute hospitals and people living longer, is resulting in a situation which is unsustainable, meaning the way we deliver care should change in a radical way.

First RayStation® Order in the United Kingdom

RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ.) has been awarded a contract to supply its RayStation® treatment planning system (TPS) to Tayside Cancer Centre, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School in Dundee, UK. Ninewells will be the first clinical installation of RayStation® in the United Kingdom. Ninewells Hospital & Medical School is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe. It has a comprehensive regional cancer centre serving the Tayside region of Scotland.

Healthcare Industry Joins Forces to Create New Digital Services

Twenty-one leading healthcare organisations have joined a formal partnership to tackle the nation’s healthcare challenges by accelerating growth in the digital healthcare market. Founded and led by D Health, the partnership known as ‘the Catalyst’ involves major brands Celisio (owners of Lloyds Pharmacy) and Johnson and Johnson's LifeScan. Other founding members include SMEs such as Isansys, Grey Matters and Cardio QT and healthcare providers Red House Practice Group, Just Checking and Physiomedics.

Largest Global mHealth App Developer Survey

For the fourth consecutive year research2guidance, in collaboration with Continua Health Alliance, is conducting a global market research about mobile Health applications to uncover their potential. Are you developing or publishing apps that help patients to manage their disease better, organize doctor's appointments, send medical reminders, track steps, monitor blood pressure levels or provide medical imaging solutions for radiologists? Are you an mHealth expert, a healthcare professional using mHealth apps for your work or a manager in a Pharma, Med-Tech or Health Insurance company that oversees mHealth activities?

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Carestream's New Vue PACS Platform will Use Latest Windows/Intel Technology

Oracle Health Sciences Works with Nuance to Voice Enable Clinical Trials

Scottish Healthcare Professionals Access Patients' Key Information Summary through Clinical Portal

Opinion Article: People, Politics and Personalities - How Changing Attitudes is the Final Step to Integrated Care

First RayStation® Order in the United Kingdom

Healthcare Industry Joins Forces to Create New Digital Services

Largest Global mHealth App Developer Survey

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