Tunstall Healthcare (UK) Ltd has been awarded places on two new Consortium Procurement buying frameworks:
1. Framework for Technology Enabled Care Solutions - services including Installation, Service, Monitoring and Software
2. Framework for Technology Enabled Care Solutions - Products
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Ascom Speeds up Healthcare Response Times by Advanced Integration with Leading EHR Systems
Ascom, a leading supplier of Healthcare ICT solutions, is extending its Unite Messaging Suite® integration capability with leading EHR (Electronic Health Record) systems by enabling advanced alert messaging for patient admissions, discharges and transfers.
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Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Appoint Cerner as Preferred Supplier for Major Electronic Patient Record Programme
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust have committed to major investments in their information technology, including a significant infrastructure programme and procurement of a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR).
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The Perceived Threat and Real Opportunity of Personal Health Budgets
Opinion Article by Benjamyn Damazer, head of commissioning at NHS Shared Business Services.
Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) and personalised care are some of the most central components of the Five Year Forward View. People are to have more direct say in how money is spent on their individual care and wellbeing.
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Philips and UNFPA Collaborate to Transform Lives in Mandera County, Kenya
Royal Philips (NYSE: PGH, AEX: PHIA), in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today revealed its plans to inaugurate a Community Life Center (CLC) in Mandera, a County in North-Eastern Kenya with one of the world's highest maternal mortality ratio - 3,795 per 100,000 live births.
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Alder Hey Children's Hospital Set to Become UK's First 'Cognitive' Hospital
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust today announced a ground-breaking multi-year collaborative programme with the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre, supported by IBM (NYSE: IBM), to create the United Kingdom's first 'cognitive' hospital by harnessing 'big data' and the power of IBM's Watson technology platform.
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Manchester Student Nurses Receive World First in Care-critical Frontline Digital Skills
Student nurses in Manchester have become the first anywhere in the world to be trained in how to use a vital signs observations technology called Patientrack, before they set foot onto the ward. The pioneering move at The University of Manchester, signals the start of a changing educational focus to equip the UK's first generation of 'paperless' nurses
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