Worldwide Shipments of Carestream's Digital DRX X-ray Detectors Surpass 9,000 Units
Carestream Health has shipped more than 9,000 DRX detectors since launching the CARESTREAM DRX-1, a revolutionary wireless X-ray detector that quickly and affordably retrofits existing X-ray rooms or portable diagnostic imaging systems from CR to DR technology, or powers new DR rooms and mobile systems.
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Case Study: Looking at the Bigger Picture
NHS Lanarkshire initially had a vision to make clinical information more readily available for the treatment of patients with long-term conditions. However, after going live with a clinical portal, the health board is now making real-time and historical information accessible to healthcare professionals across primary and secondary care settings, facilitating the coordinated care of all patients regardless of condition.
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Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Launches Electronic Patient Record System
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) in Harlow, Essex, and Cambio Healthcare Systems headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, specialists in providing integrated electronic patient record (EPR) systems, have worked together for 18 months aiming to transform the provision of frontline care, ensuring better outcomes for patients and increased efficiencies for the trust.
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EMIS Grows Community Reach with London and Southern Framework Contracts
EMIS has signed two major contracts under the NHS London and Southern framework - to deliver joined-up healthcare for nearly half a million patients. The contracts will see community providers in North Somerset and South Gloucestershire switch from RiO to EMIS Web to help manage more than 50 services including dementia care, district nursing, health visiting, a community hospital and two minor injury units.
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Polish Healthcare Industry to Benefit from Specialist Health Data Management Solution
BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Data Management specialist, and Alstor, the storage solutions provider, today announce a new partnership. This agreement allows Alstor to extend its existing portfolio to include BridgeHead Software's Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Solution, offering Polish hospitals a unique software environment to store, protect and share clinical and administrative information, both on-premise, in the cloud or a hybrid configuration.
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Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust to Streamline Check-in Process for One Million Patients
Jayex, recognised as a leading provider of healthcare self-service and patient flow management solutions, is enabling Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust to fast-track patient check-ins seamlessly from the entrance to the waiting area, in one of the largest deployments of its kind to date across Europe. This is anticipated to streamline the trust's one million annual outpatient encounters, whilst improving data quality and efficiency.
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Philips to Expand Technology Platforms with Acquisition of Unisensor
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG; AEX: PHIA) today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Unisensor, an innovator in the field of optical analysis of fluids for diagnostic applications in health care, as well as other industries. The Unisensor technology and team will strengthen Philips' innovation capabilities in the field of patient sample analysis such as blood testing for applications in oncology therapy monitoring.
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