Call for Innovative Research Projects: 10k to Improve Patient Health
QResearch® has announced details of this year's QInnovation Award which recognises innovative research to improve the nation's health - with a grant of up to £10,000 for the winner. Now in its second year, the award is inviting entries from UK research teams involved in projects that are likely to benefit patients or improve clinical care in primary, secondary or community health.
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Shearwater Throws its Weight Behind Mobile Clinical Applications
Dr Ian Denley and Markus Bolton have unveiled Shearwater Systems, a new company established with £2.16m of initial funding to develop mobile clinical applications and health records for the UK health and social care market. Canterbury-based Shearwater Systems has already taken on 15 staff, the majority of whom are technical. The team is developing a range of healthcare IT products including the Rapport Clinical Portal and the Rapport Patient Portal.
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NHS England to Join IMS MAXIMS at EHI Live to Talk Open Source
NHS England will be joining IMS MAXIMS on stand A44 at this year's annual EHI Live conference and exhibition on November 5-6 at the NEC, Birmingham. IMS MAXIMS is one of the first suppliers in the UK to discuss an open source package for patient administration systems and electronic patient records. Delegates are invited to the stand to find out more about open source and what it could mean for them.
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Bristol Community Health CIC is Now Mobile
Following on from a successful pilot, social enterprise and NHS healthcare provider Bristol Community Health CIC has gone live with the TotalMobile™ App Platform across three of their community healthcare teams and their citywide phlebotomy service. The TotalMobile App, a mobile workflow management solution, allows Healthcare Professionals to spend less time on administration and travel, and more with patients.
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Milton Keynes' A&E Ready for 2013 Winter Pressures
The College of Emergency Medicine claims A&E departments have become "like warzones," while the Care Quality Commission has admitted that in some parts of England, emergency care is now "out of control." At Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, however, innovative technology developed with Caradigm is helping to support the hospital's A&E department in the daily management of these challenges.
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Philips and RealView Imaging Conclude World's First Study to Evaluate Live 3D Holographic Imaging in Interventional Cardiology
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and RealView Imaging Ltd. have completed a clinical study that has demonstrated the feasibility of using an innovative live 3D holographic visualization and interaction technology to guide minimally-invasive structural heart disease procedures. In the pilot study that involved eight patients and was conducted in collaboration with the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petach Tikva, Israel, RealView's innovative visualization technology was used to display interactive, real-time 3D holographic images acquired by Philips' interventional X-ray and cardiac ultrasound systems.
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Scotland's New Digital Health Institute Unveiled
Scotland's pioneering Digital Health Institute was officially launched in Edinburgh to an audience of leading figures in the global healthcare sector and multi-national technology companies. The DHI, a collaborative partnership between public and private organisations, brings together the country's leading health and care operators and engages technology businesses across Europe, the United States and Asia to speed up research and development in order to produce innovative new technologies that will transform the quality of people's lives and help Scotland become an exporter of world-leading products and services.
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