East Cheshire NHS Trust Selects HCS and Net.Orange to Help Deliver Vision for Joined-Up Care
East Cheshire NHS Trust is to partner with HCS, to help drive forward the development of integrated care across Eastern Cheshire's Health and Social Care system. The HCS Care Coordination service will provide expert assistance to the Trust to support the delivery of integrated care as a key partner in Eastern Cheshire's Caring Together Programme, which aims to commission and deliver patient-centred joined up, pro-active care services.
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Forcomed Chooses Vue Cloud Solution for Digital Mammography e-Learning Programme in France
The partnership between medical training organisation Forcomed in France and Carestream Health is taking on a new dimension. After training several thousand radiologists in digital mammography on Carestream diagnostic workstations, Forcomed is launching an innovative Internet e-Learning training programme for digital mammography.
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Agfa HealthCare Installs New DR Room at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
Agfa HealthCare has successfully implemented its DX-D 600 Direct Radiography (DR) system at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (WWL), creating a new DR room at the Leigh Infirmary. Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust is a major acute trust serving the 318,000 population in the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas.
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Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced the launch of its Healthcare Transformation Services Business, which in collaboration with healthcare service providers, will offer consulting services to improve the operational and financial performance of hospitals and health systems, and improve patient outcomes across the continuum of care from diagnosis to treatment and after care at home.
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Opinion Article: Mobile Technology - The Key to Service Transformation in NHSScotland
By Colin Reid, Chief Executive of TotalMobile.
Both the new Scottish eHealth strategy and a range of service transformation projects and initiatives in Scotland are being driven by the need for health boards to do more with less. More people are now living with long-term conditions than ever before - around two million people in Scotland, or 40% of the population - and the number is rising.
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East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Chooses Innovative Clinical Portal
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has selected Harris Healthcare's Clinical Integration Platform to help fulfill its vision of providing a paperless and mobile clinical environment as part of a wider modernisation programme. The trust, which has signed a pilot agreement for 500 licences, will use the clinical portal to enable the organisation to bring together patient information from numerous different clinical systems that currently work in isolation.
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EU-Funded Program to Develop First 'cookbook' for Coordinated Care and Telehealth Deployment
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and its consortium partners announced the launch of the Advancing Care Coordination and Telehealth Deployment (ACT) program. The Philips-led ACT program is the first to explore the organizational and structural processes needed to successfully implement care coordination and telehealth (CC&TH) services on a large scale.
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