Highland Marketing to Confirm EHI Live as Leading Event for the eHealth Community
Highland Marketing has been appointed by EHI to deliver a range of PR and social media activities in support of the EHI Live 2012 event, which takes place from 6 - 7 November 2012 at the NEC Birmingham. Now in its fifth year, EHI Live provides a forum for the entire healthcare IT community to meet and discuss a wide range of eHealth issues.
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IMS MAXIMS to Announce New NHS Partnership at EHI Live 2012
IMS MAXIMS will announce a new partnership that will provide a unique opportunity for healthcare organisations to work with one of the most technologically advanced trusts in the country and one of the UK's leading electronic patient record system providers at EHI Live on the 6-7 November 2012.
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Humber Extends Lorenzo Functionality
Humber NHS Foundation Trust has started extending the functionality of its Lorenzo electronic patient record less than five months after the trust became the first mental health organisation to use the system. The trust, which went live with CSC's Lorenzo in May 2012, has been working to optimise the system and is now planning and testing additional functionality including day care and care plans,
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Elekta and Philips Establish Research Consortium
Elekta AB (NSE: EKTAb) and Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) will expand a joint program to develop a breakthrough in cancer care with an imaging-treatment platform that merges radiation therapy and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology in a single treatment system.
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Agfa HealthCare to Launch Latest Version of IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine
Agfa HealthCare announces that it will launch the latest version of its IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine solution at the 2012 Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) in Milan, Italy. Delivering the benefits of integrated care to the nuclear medicine department, this solution supports the patient's entire exam flow.
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Rochester General Health System Purchases Carestream's Cardiology PACS to Streamline Workflow, Enhance Patient Care
Rochester General Health System (Rochester, N.Y.) purchased CARESTREAM Vue for Cardiology to achieve greater efficiency through the integration of cardiology exams with its radiology PACS and its EMR. The hospital also plans to leverage its existing Vue Archive as a centralised repository for cardiology and radiology imaging studies.
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Opinion Article: Raising the Bar for Gold Standard Care
By James Turnbull, Managing Director, Sales, Northgate Managed Services.
The NHS truly is a global brand. The opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, quite rightly, presented the health service as one of the UK's most treasured possessions - and one of its proudest accomplishments. But, following a sporting summer where athletes have pushed themselves towards the limits of human achievement, the NHS must itself raise the bar if it is to maintain its position as a world-class performer and redefine the gold standard of patient care.
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