Call for Applications: 2017 Lyfebulb-Novo Nordisk Innovation Summit and Award
For the second year in a row, Lyfebulb and Novo Nordisk will support international patient entrepreneurs who develop innovative ideas and concepts aimed to positively empower and impact the lives of people living with type 1 or type 2 diabetes - and ultimately our societies. The Lyfebulb-Novo Nordisk Innovation Summit is based on the Lyfebulb Entrepreneur Circle, which was established in 2015.
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Next Steps for Standards
Opinion Article by Andrew Meiner, Managing Director, Stalis.
Just before the general election was called, NHS England set out the progress that it wants to see taken on the Five Year Forward View. The Next Steps on the Five Year Forward View report reiterated the message that the key to closing the growing gap between funding, demand and cost is for health and social care organisations to do things differently.
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NHS Organisations to Access IMS MAXIMS Cloud-Based Services on G Cloud 9 Framework
Award-winning electronic patient record (EPR) provider IMS MAXIMS has announced the availability of its cloud services on the latest iteration of the UK Government's G Cloud Framework. NHS organisations looking for a cost-effective and efficient way to purchase cloud-based solutions that enable their paperless 2020 ambitions, can use G Cloud 9 to access a range of IMS MAXIMS professional implementation services.
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UK PACS Win for Carestream Announced
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (West Herts) located in the South East of the UK and Carestream have signed and exchanged contracts to replace the Trust's existing PACS with a CARESTREAM Vue PACS and Vue VNA. The new five-year contract will be provided as a Managed Service, including software, services, workstation and server hardware.
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Philips and Illumina Team Up with Navican, an Intermountain Healthcare Company, to Accelerate the Delivery of Precision Medicine to Health Systems Worldwide
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) and Navican, an Intermountain Healthcare company, today signed an agreement to deploy a precision health informatics solution that will allow hospitals and health systems worldwide to access the sophisticated services of Intermountain's successful precision medicine program in a "turn-key" manner.
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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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