Galway Clinic is undergoing an ambitious project to become the first hospital in Ireland to enable patients access to their Electronic Health Record (EHR) by November 2016. To achieve this, the clinic has installed MEDITECH's latest EHR platform, MEDITECH 6.1, and is using BridgeHead Software's RAPid™ Data Protection suite to ensure that the MEDITECH system, as well as the rest of the hospital's data, is fully protected and recoverable in the event of a system outage, data corruption, loss, or major disaster.
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Physicians Want Pharmaceutical Industry to Double Down on Patient Support
Many pharmaceutical companies run beyond-the-pill programmes which support patients toward successful treatments. The goal: improving outcomes by improving adherence. Specially-trained nurses call patients and inform them about their treatment and the specifics of their medication.
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New Zealand Hospitals Use Electronic System from UK Specialist Healthcare System Supplier
Canterbury and West Coast District Health Boards (DHBs) in New Zealand are set to implement a new digital patient observation and alert response system, aimed at helping clinicians identify deteriorating patients earlier. The Patientrack system will be introduced from November and is designed to make patient observations immediately visible to clinical teams anywhere through hospital information systems.
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How mHealth is Spearheading NHS Technology Adoption
Mental health disorders are the 'single largest cause of disability in the UK', said life science minister George Freeman when he announced the creation of a £650,000 prize fund to develop new mental health apps. Using technology to support greater self-care is a key part of the NHS' digital vision for both physical and mental health.
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Aridhia Announces Northern Ireland Based Alzheimer's Research Collaboration to Benefit from AnalytiXagility Workspace
Aridhia, the Edinburgh based clinical informatics company, announced that their AnalytiXagility data platform has been chosen to underpin a three year research programme that was awarded Innovate UK funding via the Neurodegenerative Diseases: Business Models and Big Data competition, following a joint bid by three of Northern Ireland’s leading organisations.
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Driving the Connected Healthcare Market to a Wider Standardization
With more than 200,000 connected medical devices currently in the field and a strong position as pioneer and worldwide leader of the connected healthcare market, eDevice was the key representative of the Telehealth industry participating in this first oneM2M Interoperability Test. The result of the tests demonstrated interoperability between eDevice's HealthGO Mini medical hub for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and oneM2M servers from various companies, including Cisco Systems (CSCO), Huawei Technologies, LG, Qualcomm (QCOM), HP & Fraunhofer, amongst others.
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Medelinked Health Partner Portal and Medelinked App Now Available Free to Medical Practitioners
Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, is now available free to medical practitioners and healthcare professionals. The Medelinked Health Partner Portal enables them to create health accounts for their patients and clients and safely and securely upload health records directly through the Portal to an individual patient or client's online Medelinked account.
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Galway Clinic is undergoing an ambitious project to become the first hospital in Ireland to enable patients access to their Electronic Health Record (EHR) by November 2016. To achieve this, the clinic has installed MEDITECH's latest EHR platform, MEDITECH 6.1, and is using BridgeHead Software's RAPid™ Data Protection suite to ensure that the MEDITECH system, as well as the rest of the hospital's data, is fully protected and recoverable in the event of a system outage, data corruption, loss, or major disaster. 
Many pharmaceutical companies run beyond-the-pill programmes which support patients toward successful treatments. The goal: improving outcomes by improving adherence. Specially-trained nurses call patients and inform them about their treatment and the specifics of their medication. 
Canterbury and West Coast District Health Boards (DHBs) in New Zealand are set to implement a new digital patient observation and alert response system, aimed at helping clinicians identify deteriorating patients earlier. The Patientrack system will be introduced from November and is designed to make patient observations immediately visible to clinical teams anywhere through hospital information systems. 
Mental health disorders are the 'single largest cause of disability in the UK', said life science minister George Freeman when he announced the creation of a £650,000 prize fund to develop new mental health apps. Using technology to support greater self-care is a key part of the NHS' digital vision for both physical and mental health. 
Aridhia, the Edinburgh based clinical informatics company, announced that their AnalytiXagility data platform has been chosen to underpin a three year research programme that was awarded Innovate UK funding via the Neurodegenerative Diseases: Business Models and Big Data competition, following a joint bid by three of Northern Ireland’s leading organisations. 
With more than 200,000 connected medical devices currently in the field and a strong position as pioneer and worldwide leader of the connected healthcare market, eDevice was the key representative of the Telehealth industry participating in this first oneM2M Interoperability Test. The result of the tests demonstrated interoperability between eDevice's HealthGO Mini medical hub for Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and oneM2M servers from various companies, including Cisco Systems (CSCO), Huawei Technologies, LG, Qualcomm (QCOM), HP & Fraunhofer, amongst others. 
Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, is now available free to medical practitioners and healthcare professionals. The Medelinked Health Partner Portal enables them to create health accounts for their patients and clients and safely and securely upload health records directly through the Portal to an individual patient or client's online Medelinked account.