Hillingdon Council's Free Telecare to Over 85s Delivers Real Benefits
Hillingdon Council is offering free Lifeline telecare packages from Tunstall to residents over the age of 85 through its TeleCareLine service, to promote safe and independent living by bringing support for service users directly into their homes.
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Opinion Article: Patient privacy, Time to Take Action for the Sake of Britain's Health
By Kurt J. Long, Founder and CEO of FairWarning, Inc.
Dramatic changes are taking place which mean that leaders in healthcare must rapidly become leaders in patient privacy. This is essential for the reputation of their organisations and the protection of patients and staff. Events are being driven by two powerful and converging forces - demand and regulation.
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Dell Simplifies Sharing, Management and Retention of Medical Imaging Data for UK Hospitals
Dell is bringing its Unified Clinical Archiving (UCA) solution to the United Kingdom to help hospital clinicians simplify how they manage and share medical images between disparate Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) used in radiology, cardiology, neurosurgery, endoscopy, mammography and digital pathology, and manage the proliferation of imaging data in patient care.
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Parascript Announces New Version, Implementations of AccuDetect Computer-Aided Detection for Digital Mammography
Parascript, LLC, the image analysis and pattern recognition technology provider, today announced the latest version of its computer-aided detection (CAD) technology for mammography. AccuDetect 6.1 offers radiologists continued improvements in sensitivity and specificity in detecting suspicious lesions on mammograms.
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Cerner Announces Next Evolution of Cerner Millennium®
Cerner (Nasdaq: CERN) announced the launch of Millennium+™, the next evolution of Cerner Millennium®. Combining the enterprise platform with the secure Cerner Cloud, Millennium+ delivers a new user experience that is fast, smart and easy.
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iSOFT Partners with Southampton on Groundbreaking Life Science Project
iSOFT, a CSC company, and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust are to jointly explore using new software to extract and anonymise clinical information for research and clinical trials, in one of the first projects of its type in the UK.
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CSC Announces Pocket Health iPhone App
CSC (NYSE: CSC) announces its new 'Pocket Health' app, developed in collaboration with the NHS, to provide easy access for the UK public to a wealth of information from the NHS Choices website, which has over nine million visitors a month.
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