Trusting Data is the Next Stage of the NHS' Digital Journey
Opinion Article by Professor Michael Thick, Chief Clinical Officer at IMS MAXIMS.As a clinician who has been closely involved in clinical IT for all my working life, my first observation is that very few organisations have an electronic patient record (EPR) working properly. My second observation is that unless we use technology to enable a transformation in service delivery, we are whistling in the wind as far as filling the £30bn funding gap goes.
Agfa HealthCare will demonstrate the company's focus on "Innovating Visual Healthcare" at RSNA 2015, being held from November 29-December 4 in Chicago, Illinois (USA). Building on its 100+ years of experience, Agfa HealthCare develops innovations that offer the ease of use customers need to maximize the potential of the solutions, with designs that keep the clinical user and patient in mind. 
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced the first in a series of personal health programs that empower consumers to take greater control of their health. Each health program comprises connected health measurement devices, an app-based personalized program and secure, cloud-based data analysis. 
Sanofi and the life sciences team at Google are collaborating to improve care and outcomes for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The collaboration will pair Sanofi's leadership in diabetes treatments and devices with Google's expertise in analytics, miniaturized electronics and low power chip design. 
The digital version of the Personal Child Health Record, eRedbook, will soon become available for parents and health professionals in the London region. A number of NHS Trusts will start implementing the eRedbook service before the new year in order to meet their CQUIN objectives, moving towards giving parents a complete record of their child's health. 
Since its creation 70 years ago, Gustave Roussy has developed an innovative model of comprehensive care and a large network of satellite centers and partners, both nationally in France as affiliated to the Unicancer Federation, and internationally as a member of the Cancer Core Europe consortium, which consists of six European centers of excellence in oncology.