Patient Privacy Top Priority as Norway Rolls out National Summary Care Record
The Norwegian Health Directorate has selected FairWarning® Patient Privacy Monitoring solution as an integral part of the national roll out of the Norwegian Summary Care Record (SCR). The deployment of the FairWarning solution will enable compliance to new legislation introduced in June 2013, which mandates the protection of patient privacy.
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Opinion Article: Being Open to Open Source
By Wayne Parslow, VP Harris Healthcare EMEA.
A new and frenzied debate has opened up in the world of healthcare technology- should NHS technology be open source? A move to open source would potentially mean vast reductions in licence fees for the NHS, the ability for the NHS to develop systems to their bespoke needs, no more supplier lock-in - which results in NHS organisations struggling to get the IT products they use to work with another supplier's - and of course, no need for "one size fits" all contracts such as we saw with the National Programme for IT.
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Caradigm Supports Caldicott2 with UK Launch of its Clinical IT Solution
Caradigm has launched its clinical application provisioning solution in the UK. Caradigm Provisioning, the latest module which completes its Identity and Access Management (IAM) suite, has been designed to help healthcare organisations efficiently manage clinician access to applications and data while supporting their compliance with data privacy regulations.
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Last Chance to Register for the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Digital Health Masterclass
Over 100 of Europe's best digital health companies have already asked to take part in the Johnson & Johnson Digital Health Masterclass and an impressive line up of some of Europe's foremost experts in healthcare, technology, business strategy and venture capital is in place to help companies deliver on their growth agenda.
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UZ Gent in Belgium Streamlines Nuclear Medicine Workflow with Agfa HealthCare's IMPAX
Agfa HealthCare has signed an agreement with Ghent University Hospital (UZ Gent) in Belgium to implement its IMPAX for Nuclear Medicine solution, including the Oasis for IMPAX dedicated nuclear medicine workstation package, within the hospital. The solution is expected to be up and running by the end of 2013 and will complement UZ Gent's IMPAX Radiology Information System/Picture Archiving and Communication System (RIS/PACS).
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iPLATO Hub to Help Government Boost Uptake of NHS Health Checks
iPLATO Healthcare, a UK leader in cloud based mHealth and Analytics, welcomes the new government mandate to re-launch NHS Health Checks to reach 15 million patients over the next 5 years. In a number of trials in recent years the iPLATO service has proven to help engage target patients around NHS Health Checks and cost effectively reach screening targets.
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NHS Calderdale CCG and Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation Trust Invest in Telehealth Solutions from Tunstall
NHS Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are working in partnership with leading telehealthcare provider Tunstall Healthcare, to provide advanced telehealth solutions that will help to support people with long-term conditions. Telehealth will initially be offered to 24 COPD patients in their own home at any one time, with the initiative expected to develop and to benefit many more patients in the region.
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