The Microsoft Healthcare Innovation Awards, now in its thirteenth year, is an opportunity to showcase how your organization and your customer's organization, is using technology to enhance and transform the quality of patient care, reduce costs, streamline clinical and business processes, drive interoperability, improve productivity and workflow, and enable informed decisions. 
Blackpool Council's Vitaline and NHS Blackpool have reported on the success of the use of telehealth home monitoring to support people with long-term conditions to enable them to live independently at home. 
Tieto is speeding up taking advantage of the information and communication technology (ICT) in healthcare and welfare services by starting a programme to share knowledge and utilize new ICT opportunities even more in solving challenges in healthcare and welfare. 
Orion Health, Ltd. announced its first major deal in Scandinavia, following the signing a framework agreement between Logica and the South-Eastern Norwegian Regional Health Authority. Orion Health technology will be used to develop a clinical desktop solution designed to simplify access to patient data and improve patient care at the hospitals in the region. 
CSC (NYSE: CSC) has announced the incremental roll-out of a new suite of solutions and services to help healthcare organisations improve the quality and delivery of patient care at a time when budgets are under pressure. 
Picis announced that Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey, England has successfully implemented Picis integrated surgical, anesthesia, recovery room and critical care software solutions. The implementation is already helping Frimley Park improve its departments' productivity and efficiency, and further its initiatives to help improve patient safety. 
Nearly half of online physicians in Western Europe watch online video for professional purposes, according to the latest Taking the Pulse® Europe v9.0 study from pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research.