East Midlands Ambulance Service Saves £40m and 116,000 Ambulance Journeys a Year with Odyssey
East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) is saving £40 million and 116,000 unnecessary ambulance journeys a year, by using clinical support system Odyssey from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced) to manage 999 calls. The software has enabled 16% of the 2,000 daily emergency calls received, to be responded to with appropriate telephone advice - saving 320 ambulance journeys every day.
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Carestream Nordic User Group Meeting 'A Great Success'
Carestream Nordic region recently held a highly successful HCIS User Group meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. Customers, including radiologists, RIS/PACS Managers and IT Specialists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, attended the event, held at the headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons.
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Medelinked Announces New App on the Salesforce AppExchange, the World's Leading Enterprise Apps Marketplace
Medelinked, an online health application that empowers healthcare engagement and management, announced today it has launched the Medelinked App on the Salesforce AppExchange and become a Registered Salesforce ISV partner. Medelinked Health Cloud and API is a leading solution already powering some of the best mHealth applications, allowing developers to create a series of new applications that deliver real health benefits to the end user and healthcare professionals.
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Charity Seeks Diagnostic Partners to Deliver New Patient Treatments
MRC Technology (MRCT), an independent life science medical research charity, has launched a Call for Diagnostics. It is seeking academic and industry collaborators to develop diagnostic tests in areas of unmet patient needs. Lack of resources, limited industry connections and restricted access to patient cohorts can often prevent promising science being developed into treatments that benefit patients.
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Lancashire Trust Delivers Safer Medication to 1.5 Million with EMIS Health
Clinicians at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust are prescribing and administering drugs more safely and efficiently thanks to cutting-edge technology from EMIS Health. The Trust has gone live with EMIS Health's ePMA (electronic prescribing and medicines administration) in the 20-bed Scarisbrick mental health unit at Ormskirk Hospital.
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Elsevier's Arezzo Puts GPs at the Vanguard of Improved Cancer Diagnosis
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, is now able to support primary care clinicians and others to deliver high quality care in areas such as cancer diagnoses, referral rates and self-care through Arezzo, its active clinical decision support (CDS) technology.
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NHS Hospitals Tackle Deadly Condition through UK SME Partnership
An NHS project to predict instances of acute kidney injury (AKI) and reduce avoidable deaths associated with the devastating condition, is to form the foundation of a keynote speech at EHI Live on 4th November. Donald Kennedy, managing director of specialist health technology developer Patientrack, will address the conference on how a genuine collaboration with clinical pioneers at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
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