Driving the Connected Healthcare Market to a Wider Standardization
With more than 200,000 connected medical devices currently in the field and a strong position as pioneer and worldwide leader of the connected healthcare market, eDevice was the key representative of the Telehealth industry participating in this first oneM2M Interoperability Test. The result of the tests demonstrated interoperability between eDevice's HealthGO Mini medical hub for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and oneM2M servers from various companies, including Cisco Systems (CSCO), Huawei Technologies, LG, Qualcomm (QCOM), HP & Fraunhofer, amongst others.
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Agfa HealthCare Highlights "Integrated Clinical and Visual Care" at EHI LIVE
Agfa HealthCare will focus on "Integrated Clinical and Visual Care" at EHI Live, being held from 3-4 November 2015 in Birmingham, UK. Building on its 100+ years of experience, Agfa HealthCare continues to develop innovations with designs that keep the user and customer in mind. At EHI Live, Agfa HealthCare will show how this focus has resulted in concrete achievements, integrating XERO across both Agfa and non-Agfa platforms,
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Smartphone Pilot Signals White Coat Syndrome Solution
A smartphone pilot study has highlighted a potential solution for white coat syndrome - the medical phenomenon responsible for sending some patients’ blood pressure soaring in the GP surgery. Patient Angela Howard was able to prove that her surgery blood pressure test results were uncharacteristically high and not an accurate reflection of her actual health in a month-long trial of the Personal Health Record (PHR) within EMIS Health's Patient Access app.
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Medelinked Health Partner Portal and Medelinked App Now Available Free to Medical Practitioners
Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, is now available free to medical practitioners and healthcare professionals. The Medelinked Health Partner Portal enables them to create health accounts for their patients and clients and safely and securely upload health records directly through the Portal to an individual patient or client's online Medelinked account.
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Redefining Technologies in the Quest for Patient Centricity
Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.
The advent of the radiology picture archiving and communication system, or PACS, signalled an early and pioneering shift to digital within NHS hospitals some 15 years ago. As an NHS radiographer, and then PACS manager, during the early parts of this journey, I witnessed first-hand the end of working with restrictive light boxes and acetates, and the improved flow of information that resulted from the new technology.
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East Midlands Ambulance Service Saves £40m and 116,000 Ambulance Journeys a Year with Odyssey
East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) is saving £40 million and 116,000 unnecessary ambulance journeys a year, by using clinical support system Odyssey from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced) to manage 999 calls. The software has enabled 16% of the 2,000 daily emergency calls received, to be responded to with appropriate telephone advice - saving 320 ambulance journeys every day.
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Carestream Nordic User Group Meeting 'A Great Success'
Carestream Nordic region recently held a highly successful HCIS User Group meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. Customers, including radiologists, RIS/PACS Managers and IT Specialists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, attended the event, held at the headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons.
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