Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging for Radiology Rapidly Embraced by Small and Large Hospitals Across Belgium
Agfa HealthCare announces the successful launch of its Enterprise Imaging for Radiology solution, with multiple hospitals in Belgium going live and more to follow. The platform simplifies the creation of a single comprehensive patient imaging record, empowering physicians to make informed decisions through multi-specialty collaboration, helping improve delivery of patient care and streamlining costs. 
With more than 200,000 connected medical devices currently in the field and a strong position as pioneer and worldwide leader of the connected healthcare market, eDevice was the key representative of the Telehealth industry participating in this first oneM2M Interoperability Test. The result of the tests demonstrated interoperability between eDevice's HealthGO Mini medical hub for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and oneM2M servers from various companies, including Cisco Systems (CSCO), Huawei Technologies, LG, Qualcomm (QCOM), HP & Fraunhofer, amongst others. 
A smartphone pilot study has highlighted a potential solution for white coat syndrome - the medical phenomenon responsible for sending some patients’ blood pressure soaring in the GP surgery. Patient Angela Howard was able to prove that her surgery blood pressure test results were uncharacteristically high and not an accurate reflection of her actual health in a month-long trial of the Personal Health Record (PHR) within EMIS Health's Patient Access app. 
Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, is now available free to medical practitioners and healthcare professionals. The Medelinked Health Partner Portal enables them to create health accounts for their patients and clients and safely and securely upload health records directly through the Portal to an individual patient or client's online Medelinked account. 
Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.
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.