Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust Acquires Agfa HealthCare Digital Radiography Systems
Agfa HealthCare announced that the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust's main hospital - North Devon District Hospital - as well as eight of its community hospitals have replaced their existing digital radiography systems, with Agfa HealthCare CR 30-X and DX-G CR solutions, including MUSICA image processing-enabled workstations and image processing.
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Carestream Becomes a Sponsor of MUST Research Project
Carestream has become a sponsor of the MUST Research Project to take place during the 2014 Tor des Géants Endurance Trail Race held between 7-14 September in Italy. Carestream will supply image management and archiving services from its cloud-based Vue PACS platform for the MRI mobile unit to be used by the project's researchers and physiologists, both at the base camp during the race and from scientists' home locations after the race.
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Siemens Presents Solutions to Support in Fighting Cardiovascular Diseases
Under the motto "More cardiology, less heartache", Siemens showcases its latest news in cardiology at the congress of the European Society for Cardiology in Barcelona, Spain. These are applications designed for a more precise diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases in computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and molecular imaging as well as the universal angiography system Artis one with premium features for cardiology.
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Care Homes to Benefit from Enhanced Efficiencies and Data Security with Mobilised Care Solution
Advanced Health & Care (Advanced) has announces extended, mobile functionality for Caresys, the company's widely used care home management software. Caresys Mobile will now be accessible via tablet computers, allowing care workers to evidence care provision at the point of delivery within the care home environment, as they carry out their day-to-day duties.
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Google Fit Preview SDK Now Available
Google has announced Google Fit: an open platform for developers to more easily build fitness apps. According to the official blog post, Google Fit provides a single set of APIs for apps and device manufacturers to store and access activity data from fitness apps and sensors on Android and other devices (like wearables, heart rate monitors or connected scales).
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Opinion Article: Revolution or Evolution in Personal Health Record (PHR)?
By Rok Vrbica, CEO of CodeMonkee.
PHR (personal health record) is a health record where health data of a patient is maintained by the patient. Majority of today’s solutions are web-based applications. While mobile apps are focused mainly on a single problem, web solutions are comprehensive PHRs.
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Opinion Article: Opening Up to Open Source
By Shane Tickell, CEO of IMS MAXIMS.
A year ago I declared that IMS MAXIMS was considering making its MAXIMS PAS and EPR available as an open source solution to the NHS. At that point, we were "far from committed to the model" but were engaging with our customers, sounding out the market and getting to grips with the benefits for both IMS MAXIMS and the wider health economy.
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