Two CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray Systems have been installed in the main imaging departments at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and the Lancashire Cardiac Centre, both part of the Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK.
InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected healthcare, has announced that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is using InterSystems HealthShare® to support key specialist care services. HealthShare is a health informatics platform that enables strategic interoperability and analytics for action across a hospital network, community, region, or nation.
Agfa HealthCare is a winner of Premier, Inc.'s Supplier Legacy Award for operational excellence and builds on a relationship between Agfa HealthCare and Premier that spans nearly two decades. The award recognizes the company as a leader in healthcare IT for its "gold standard" enterprise imaging solution, ICIS, and additional IT solutions and service offerings.
OpenTele, a home healthcare monitoring project that is being successfully piloted in Denmark, is available as open source. The Danish government is planning to implement the software all over the country, starting next year. The software is available on Github and can be re-used by health care organisations in other countries.
Doctors 2.0 & You 4th Edition Start-up Contest announced the winning and runner-up digital health start-up companies. First place was awarded to Medivizor (Israel) represented by Tal Givoly. Second place was awarded to Medexo (Germany) represented by Jan-Christoph Loh.
Lack of access to patient information in real-time is affecting the ability of 88% of community health workers to perform their roles, reveals a study of 17 healthcare organisations throughout the UK.