Patient Safety Learning Urges New Approach by Health and Social Care Sector to Stop Thousands of Avoidable Deaths Each Year
Patient Safety Learning today announced acampaign to end the thousands of avoidable deaths each year from unsafe patient care. The charity is calling for a new approach throughout all areas of the health and social care system to ensure improvements in patient safety. This involves providers, commissioners, policy makers, regulators, patient groups, and individual patients and families. 
Guerbet, a global specialist in contrast agents and solutions for diagnostic and interventional medical imaging, announced that it has signed a new agreement with IBM Watson Health to co-develop and co-commercialize an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to help clinicians diagnose and monitor patients with prostate cancer. 
Professionals from across the country will come together to seek real answers on how to deliver closely integrated services, as the Joined Up Health and Care conference returns for its sixth year on 10th October at The Vox in Birmingham. 
Health technology specialist IMS MAXIMS has been recognised for its innovative work in the UK and Irish healthcare market in the 2019 CV Business Innovator Awards. The company has been named as the leading innovator in healthcare administration software, in recognition of the quality of its patient administration system and electronic patient record solutions, which it provides to more than 180 healthcare organisations. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced the commercial launch of Philips NightBalance, a prescription sleep position therapy device designed for patients with positional obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). 
The first Health Information Exchange (HIE) in the Middle East, Malaffi, went live at the end of July just six months after contracts were signed between the project company, Abu Dhabi Health Data Services (ADHDS), and technology provider Orion Health. 
Commenting on findings and recommendations from Public Health England's review into dependence and withdrawal associated with some prescribed medicines, Darren Nichols, UK managing director, FDB (First Databank), said: