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HomeMonitor Enhances Safety and Security for Older and Vulnerable People

With added pressures on the government to reduce spending in health and social care, local services are feeling the strain to find cost effective solutions that allow residents to continue living at home, reducing unnecessary admittance to residential care and GP callouts. With ongoing budget cuts to community services, the responsibility all too often falls to friends and family to ensure that older or vulnerable relatives are safe and secure in their own homes.

Cumbria Partnership Trust Selects FairWarning® Solution to Strengthen Patient Privacy in 'Paperless NHS'

Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has selected FairWarning® Patient Privacy Monitoring solution. This is part of the trust's strategy to become a leader in meeting the government's target for a 'paperless NHS' by 2018. It will also help to emphasise its reputation as a trusted provider of care.

Finnish Health Innovation Team in Northern Ireland for Telemonitoring NI Learning Visit

Building on the activities of eHealth Week 2013, the Centre for Connected Health and Social Care (CCHSC) which is part of the Public Health Agency (PHA), was delighted to welcome delegates from the Finnish Health Care System to the TF3 Telemonitoring NI centre in Holywood to see first-hand the fantastic support being offered to people who live with long-term conditions across Northern Ireland.

IMS MAXIMS Aims to Reduce 25,000 Preventable Deaths a Year

IMS MAXIMS, a leading provider of clinical information systems, is implementing software into NHS trusts that will ensure risk assessments take place that will help to significantly reduce the number of preventable deaths caused by VTE in UK hospitals every year.

Commission Awards Prizes to Best eHealth SMEs

European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes has awarded prizes to eHealth SMEs from Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom as part of eHealth Week 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. The winners of the 2nd EU SME eHealth Competition came up with innovations in areas such as improving cognitive behavioural therapy for mental care, improving physiological monitoring, and people facing emergencie.

East Cheshire NHS Trust Selects HCS and Net.Orange to Help Deliver Vision for Joined-Up Care

East Cheshire NHS Trust is to partner with HCS, to help drive forward the development of integrated care across Eastern Cheshire's Health and Social Care system. The HCS Care Coordination service will provide expert assistance to the Trust to support the delivery of integrated care as a key partner in Eastern Cheshire's Caring Together Programme, which aims to commission and deliver patient-centred joined up, pro-active care services.

Opinion Article: Mobile Technology - The Key to Service Transformation in NHSScotland

By Colin Reid, Chief Executive of TotalMobile.
Both the new Scottish eHealth strategy and a range of service transformation projects and initiatives in Scotland are being driven by the need for health boards to do more with less. More people are now living with long-term conditions than ever before - around two million people in Scotland, or 40% of the population - and the number is rising.

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