AeroScout®, the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility solutions for the healthcare industry, has acquired Sentient Health, which provides hospitals with software and services for optimizing inventory management of consumable medical supplies.

Voice Technologies has developed a new interface based on SpeechMagic for the HSS CRIS Radiology Information System, the national radiology system for the NHS in England, in use in 80% of hospitals throughout the UK.

West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust, recently named the top performing hospital in England for the quality of care it delivers to its patients, is implementing electronic document imaging and data capture software from Version One.

Thoughtified Limited, a SETsquared start-up company created by graduates of the Department of Computing, University of Surrey has won a major grant from the Technology Strategy Board. The grant will enable the Surrey Research Park-based company to work in the development of a participatory sensing system that will improve the management of NHS patient records in remote patient treatment.

By Kurt Long, Founder and CEO of FairWarning Inc.
The ability to share computerised patient information represents one of the great hopes for the NHS as it battles to build a sustainable future. Trusts across England are investing tens of millions of pounds in the latest generation of advanced electronic health record (EHR) systems to improve productivity, efficiency and outcomes.

Carefx announced that together with IBM they will enable hospitals across Denmark to provide clinicians with real-time access to the very latest clinical patient information, allowing them to obtain immediate insight and to make faster decisions regarding patient care.

The busiest genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic in the UK is now using an electronic patient record (EPR) system to improve productivity, patient satisfaction and the quality and safety of patient care.