Sentient Health Helps NHS Trusts Identify Cost Savings and Efficiency Improvements
International clinical supply chain experts Sentient Health are offering NHS trusts the chance to identify and make immediate savings and improve their efficiency. The company, which is expanding rapidly in the UK, has launched an 'Evidence Based Savings' assessment (EBSa) to enable trusts to identify which clinical supplies are overstocked, under-stocked and out of date.
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Norway Selects IBM to Create Smarter Healthcare Infrastructure
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has entered into an agreement with Central Norway Regional Health Authority to provide information technology to support all hospitals in Norway and improve coordination and reporting of health information, logistics and finance.
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New Zealand Heralded as a Leader in Health Technology at the Global E-Health Forum
New Zealand's status as a trailblazer in eHealth was confirmed at the inaugural Global E-Health Forum on October 25 and 26, 2010 in Hamburg, where approximately 250 delegates from more than 30 countries learnt about e-health strategies, solutions and services from around the world.
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Global Citizens' Feeling of Health and Well-Being not Linked to a Nation's Wealth
Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG) published the 'Philips Index for Health and Well-being: A global perspective'. The report reveals that people in India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and Singapore feel significantly more positive about their state of health and well-being when asked than those in some of the most developed economies of the world, such as Japan, much of Europe and the Americas.
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NHS in the East Midlands Partners with McKesson
McKesson UK, the trusted healthcare technology solutions and services provider, announced that East Midlands' commissioning services organisation EMPACT (East Midlands Procurement and Commissioning Transformation) has selected InterQual to provide evidence-based guidelines assessment across the region's PCTs, acute trusts and community hospitals.
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medavis Presents New Web Platform for medical Cross-Site and Cross-Enterprise Workflows
medavis GmbH will present portal4med at MEDICA 2010 in Düsseldorf, its new solution for facilitating communication across multiple locations and areas of specialisation. It is an innovative platform that combines various medical portals to manage workflow in medical networks.
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Opinion Article: e-Health Entering Era of 'Normality'
By Harald Deutsch, Vice President Healthcare CSC EMEA.
Time after time, we hear from industry when something new comes along - like cloud computing, for example - that it's a "new era" for health, that it's a breakthrough, that it's something revolutionary.
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