Tunstall Unveils the First Tablet-Based Supported Living Applications Suite
Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telehealth and telecare solutions, will be unveiling its myworld mobile social inclusion platform for supported living schemes, at this year's Housing LIN Extra Care Housing Annual Conference.
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Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX Agility goes Live Around the Globe
Agfa HealthCare announces that its IMPAX Agility solution, a next generation medical imaging platform that truly combines workflow, image management, reporting, and clinical applications into one seamless solution, has now been successfully launched in multiple countries around the globe. In over 125 hospitals, it is being installed or has gone live.
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Technology Transforming Referral Management at Lincolnshire Community
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) has deployed technology that allows healthcare professionals to proactively manage patient referrals and deliver care more efficiently out in the community. The deployment of Cayder's Patient Flow Management System supports a county-wide acute admissions reductions programme, which includes a focus on pro-active care, case management and early intervention to avert crisis and keep patients in the most appropriate care setting. The programme also responds in part to the significant growth in the number of people over the age of 85 in Lincolnshire.
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Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund to Improve Efficiency and Save Money
Following a successful pilot programme to automate their paper-based pre-operative assessment process within the orthopaedic outpatient clinic, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) has signed a five year contract with Caradigm to deploy its solutions trust-wide. The pilot used the Caradigm Intelligence Platform and self-service kiosks to collect pre-op assessment data from clinicians and patients.
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Urgent Care Centre Beats National Performance Targets with EMIS Web
An urgent care centre (UCC) in a deprived part of east London is meeting national targets to prevent admissions to A&E, with the help of state-of-the-art technology from EMIS. The centre, attached to the A&E department at Newham Hospital, part of East London NHS Foundation Trust, is using the company's transformational clinical system EMIS Web to care for over 70,000 patients a year and prevent avoidable A&E admissions.
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Software Europe Adds 28 New NHS Customers in One Quarter
Software Europe, the provider of online expenses, contract and workflow management, has ended 2013 on a record high, adding 29 new clients in its third quarter. 28 of those clients are NHS providers. The new deals mean that Software Europe now administers over £65 million pounds of expenses to over 600,000 NHS employees across the UK. Software Europe's cloud-based Expenses Health product has been chosen in the third quarter by, amongst others, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust.
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Opinion Article: Closing the NHS Funding Gap - Dealing with Demand not Capacity
By Angela White, Medical Director, IMS MAXIMS.
Without a detailed understanding of the NHS, you could be forgiven for thinking that the global financial crisis and government's austerity measures were somehow responsible for the financial crisis and the capacity gap that the NHS faces. But nothing could be further from the truth, which is that there has ALWAYS been a gap between demand for healthcare and capacity to deliver AND the gap has increased year on year; and increasing financial input, unless directed very strategically, has historically not addressed the gap.
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