The Siemens Museum for Medical Technology is holding its grand opening today in Erlangen. Occupying 400 square meters in all, the Siemens MedMuseum offers an overview of the development of medical technology, a field in which Siemens has played a key role for more than 160 years - from X-ray technology to laboratory diagnostics. 
Dublin's Temple Street Children's University Hospital recently re-opened their Top Flat ward - equipped with patient entertainment units from Lincor. These PatientLINC devices are initially focused on providing TV, movies, Radio, Movies on demand and the ability to plug in the child's own games console but there are advanced plans to enhance the offering by including internet access, video messaging, patient information and patient surveys in the short term. 
IMS MAXIMS has been named as one of 11 open source suppliers in a 'catalogue' designed to support NHS England’s technology fund two, officially called the Integrated Digital Care Fund, which opened for applications last week. 
InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, today announced that the UK Renal Registry has chosen InterSystems HealthShare® as its new national health informatics platform, gathering data from 84 adult and paediatric renal units, plus satellite haemodialysis units, on over 56,000 patients suffering from stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD).