Spire Healthcare Implements Zero-Footprint Vue Motion Viewer from Carestream Health
Spire Healthcare, a leading provider of private healthcare in the UK, has implemented Carestream's Vue Motion zero-footprint viewer to enable its clinicians to view patient images on mobile devices such as iPads and other android devices.
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Máxima Medical Center and Philips Collaborate on Unique New Mother and Child Care Concept
Maxima Medical Center (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) and Royal Philips Electronics announced that a major milestone has been reached in the realization of a unique new mother and child care concept. Premature babies currently receiving care at the medical center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) will be moved to new accommodation in the Woman-Mother-Child center in the Maxima Medical Center in Veldhoven.
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Rx Systems and EMIS Provide 'More Efficient' Repeat Prescribing Service
A pharmacy and GP surgery in a deprived part of East London have successfully trialled a new integrated repeat medications service from two leading healthcare IT providers. Developers at Rx Systems and EMIS created new links between Rx Systems' ProScript® and EMIS GP software to enable the two systems to talk to each other about patients' repeat medication and exchange information directly.
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New eHealth Solutions Thanks to Innovation
Today, the health sector faces new challenges, from the ageing of the population to the increase in chronic illnesses, the growing shortage of healthcare staff and the reorganization of health systems around the world. To help traditional health systems to evolve, Orange has been working for the past 10 years to pave the way for new solutions in the e-health field, thanks to the strong level of innovation within its teams.
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CSC Achieves Gold Ranking in Business in the Community's 10th Corporate Responsibility Index
CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that it has achieved a Gold ranking in Business in the Community's (BITC) 2012 Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI), the UK's leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility.
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Carestream Takes the Loire Region in France a Step Closer to the eHealth Revolution
One of the first medical imaging data archiving and sharing projects in France using CARESTREAM Vue Cloud PACS and Vue Cloud Archive is now operational. Data is hosted at the Roanne NumeriParc secure data centre in the Loire Region (south-east of France), and built around the Axione high-speed telecommunications network.
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Tech-savvy Baby Boomers to Drive Demand for eHealth
Tech savvy, well-informed baby boomers - "the power of the crowd" - will drive the adoption of ehealth, according to a new report from KPMG International. The report is based on in-depth interviews with ehealth executives representing 15 countries, as well as insights from KPMG's global healthcare partners.
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