IBM Lab-on-a-Chip Breakthrough Aims to Help Physicians Detect Cancer and Diseases at the Nanoscale
IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists have developed a new lab-on-a-chip technology that can, for the first time, separate biological particles at the nanoscale and could help enable physicians to detect diseases such as cancer before symptoms appear.
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Philips Launches Ecosystem of Connected Wearable Technologies
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced the global availability of wearable technologies and the first in a series of personal health programs that empower consumers to take greater control of their health. The medical-grade health monitoring devices - a health watch, connected scale, blood pressure monitor and thermometer - and a fully integrated companion HealthSuite Health App is available
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NHS Must Empower CCIOs and Security Leads to Tackle New Data Threats
Opinion Article by Dr Saif F Abed, EMEA Medical Director at Imprivata.
Take the perfect recipe for a new model of care. A well thought out local digital roadmap to improve efficiency through IT, a forward thinking acute trust, collaborative partners across care settings and a novel vanguard model, all combine to create a project with the potential to achieve local and national integrated care objectives.
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Netherlands-based DiaSana Empowers Patients with Carestream MyVue
DiaSana, a private diagnostic centre in the Netherlands, specialising in MRI and CT scans and X-rays, has ordered a CARESTREAM MyVue system. The system, part of Carestream's integrated Clinical Collaboration Platform, consists of Carestream MyVue and Carestream Vue Motion, a zero footprint viewer that can easily access a Vendor Neutral Archive or PACS using only a web browser or EMR portal.
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IMS MAXIMS Awarded Place on G-Cloud Framework for Four Consecutive Years
Supplier of the UK’s first open source electronic patient record, IMS MAXIMS has been awarded a place on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) G-Cloud Framework for the fourth year in a row, as successful applicants to G-Cloud 8 were revealed today.
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Achieving Clinical Credibility in NHS IT Projects
Opinion Article by Dr Chris Swinburn, Clinical Lead at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
Anyone who knows me will know I am not very good with computers. Which makes me a curious choice to lead clinical engagement in an important IT implementation for our trust. Two years ago I took a step back from clinical practice as a consultant physician at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to work as chief clinical information officer and clinical lead
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Philips' Second Quarter Results - HealthTech
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) reports Q2 sales of EUR 5.9 billion and comparable sales growth of 3%, a 9% improvement in Adjusted EBITA to EUR 544 million and net income of EUR 431 million.
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