Opinion Article: Patient privacy, Time to Take Action for the Sake of Britain's Health
Dramatic changes are taking place which mean that leaders in healthcare must rapidly become leaders in patient privacy. This is essential for the reputation of their organisations and the protection of patients and staff. Events are being driven by two powerful and converging forces - demand and regulation.
Dell is bringing its Unified Clinical Archiving (UCA) solution to the United Kingdom to help hospital clinicians simplify how they manage and share medical images between disparate Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) used in radiology, cardiology, neurosurgery, endoscopy, mammography and digital pathology, and manage the proliferation of imaging data in patient care.
Parascript, LLC, the image analysis and pattern recognition technology provider, today announced the latest version of its computer-aided detection (CAD) technology for mammography. AccuDetect 6.1 offers radiologists continued improvements in sensitivity and specificity in detecting suspicious lesions on mammograms.
Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) announced the launch of Millennium+™, the next evolution of Cerner Millennium®. Combining the enterprise platform with the secure Cerner Cloud, Millennium+ delivers a new user experience that is fast, smart and easy.
iSOFT, a CSC company, and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust are to jointly explore using new software to extract and anonymise clinical information for research and clinical trials, in one of the first projects of its type in the UK.
CSC (NYSE: CSC) announces its new 'Pocket Health' app, developed in collaboration with the NHS, to provide easy access for the UK public to a wealth of information from the NHS Choices website, which has over nine million visitors a month.
The Siemens Healthcare Sector has maintained its leading position in the field of medical technology despite a tough business environment. "In past years, we've expanded our product portfolio and even more consistently aligned it to customer needs," said Hermann Requardt, CEO of the Healthcare Sector, at the Siemens Healthcare Capital Market Day in London.