LabPON Achieves 100 Percent Digital Diagnosis for Clinical Cases with Philips
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) announced that the Netherlands-based LabPON has become the first clinical pathology laboratory in the world to have transitioned completely to digital diagnosis. With this shift, all clinical histology cases are now being assessed and diagnosed digitally with the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution instead of with a microscope, leading to improved laboratory efficiency, quality and service levels.
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CanSurround and MedClinik, Winners of the 2015 Doctors 2.0 & You Start-Up Contest
Doctors 2.0 & You announced the 2015 winners of the digital health start-up contest, CanSurround, represented by Meg Maley, CEO and Liza Bernstein advisor in first place and MedClinik, the runner-up represented by Claire Kamoun, CanSurround is based in Wilmington, Delaware and MedClinik in Montreal, Quebec.
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Tunstall and ATEL Deliver Adaptive Technology to Award Winning Assisted Living Scheme in Blackburn
Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of technology-enabled care services (TECS) has worked with Adaptive Technology Europe Ltd (ATEL) to develop, design and deliver specialist adaptive technology that supports a range of service users living with learning disabilities and complex behaviours in supported living environments.
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Stalis Enables Successful Data Migration of over 1,600,000 Records to Cerner Millennium at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Recently merged Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust contracted Stalis, specialists in integrated care record solutions, to conduct the large-scale data migration and archive project ensuring only accurate, valid and complete data was fed into the trust's new electronic patient record (EPR) system for University Hospital Lewisham, which went live with Cerner Millennium at the end of May.
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Give Staff the Tools to Deliver NHS Change
Opinion Article by Dr. Julia Fishman, Vice President Clinical Operations at TeleTracking Technologies.
We can't hide from the huge financial challenge facing the NHS. The well-documented numbers are staggering - productivity improvements are needed immediately to meet a predicted £30bn annual funding gap by 2021. To put this into perspective, £30bn would pay for over 130,000 nurses, which accounted for 35% of England's nursing workforce in 2014.
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Advanced Health & Care Signs Strategic Partnership with Cloudhouse
Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), a leading supplier of IT solutions for the health and care sectors, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Cloudhouse, a cloud application virtualisation technology developer. The partnership provides organisations with the ability to rapidly deploy Advanced's solutions in the cloud, enabling cost-efficiencies and economies of scale without the risk of migrating data between multiple platforms.
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St George's Becomes Largest UK Hospital to Receive HIMSS Digital Maturity Award
St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London has become the second and largest trust in the UK to be validated at Stage 6 of the international acute Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). The trust, which has more than 1,000 beds and serves a population of two million people, is the first site to be accredited following an onsite visit by HIMSS inspectors.
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