Beverley Bryant to Take Up Leadership Role at the System C & Graphnet Care Alliance
Director of digital transformation at NHS Digital, Beverley Bryant, has been appointed chief operating officer of the System C & Graphnet Care Alliance. She will be starting her new job on 1 August 2017. Beverley will be working closely with Ian Denley and Markus Bolton across many areas of the System C and Graphnet businesses including strategy, delivery and business development.
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The MetaVision Clinical Information System by iMDsoft is Now Live in 250+ Beds across Six Nexuz Health Hospitals in Belgium
iMDsoft announced that the sixth site at Nexuz Health, a consortium looking to raise the quality of patient care by facilitating clear, transparent partnerships between hospitals, has gone live with the MetaVision clinical information system. AZ Sint-Jan Brugge-Oostende now has electronic patient records in over 50 ICU beds, joining UZ Leuven, AZ Groeninge Kortrijk, OLV Ziekenhuis Aalst, AZ Sint-Lucas and AZ Turnhout in using MetaVision.
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Anyone can Become More Curious. Is that True?
Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced the start of an experiment entitled "Anyone can become more curious". Driven by the company’s curiosity initiative, which measured and described curiosity in detail in various countries such as the United States, China and Germany - the question now is if and how one can increase curiosity so as to ultimately lead to more or better science-driven behavior.
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KLAS Report: InterSystems TrakCare Tops Global EMR Deployments
InterSystems' electronic medical record (EMR) technology has been deployed by more hospitals than any other vendor's software during the past four years, according to a research report published today by the internationally recognised research organisation KLAS. InterSystems TrakCare®, a unified healthcare information system, has 'pulled ahead' of its competitors as a preferred solution, winning significantly more new hospitals globally (non US) than any other supplier in 2016, the report found.
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IBM Security Launches New Capabilities to Help Clients with Impending EU General Data Protection Regulation
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced new incident response capabilities, from its IBM Resilient security portfolio, to help companies address the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These capabilities are designed to help clients rehearse, prepare for and manage the new regulations. GDPR is one of the biggest changes in data privacy law in decades which goes into effect on May 25, 2018.
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Information Integration and Artificial Intelligence for Better Diagnosis and Therapy Decisions
With their joint research alliance, Siemens Healthineers and the Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image Computing MEVIS will support physicians in finding the right course of therapy for their patients. Both partners are jointly developing artificial intelligence software systems to facilitate diagnosis and therapy decisions with the help of advanced data integration, comprehensive databases, and automatic recognition of patterns and regularities in data (deep machine learning).
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Philips-Sponsored Clinical Study Demonstrates Significant Breakthrough for COPD Treatment
Recently published advancements in pulmonary research suggest that the combination of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and home oxygen therapy (HOT) can significantly prolong time to readmission or death for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) following a life-threatening respiratory event or exacerbation.
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