Thousands of NHS professionals across five hospitals in East Lancashire are to benefit from early warning technology that will help them detect and swiftly respond to deteriorating patients in need of urgent attention.
Alcidion's Patientrack system will help staff intervene early to prevent harm when patients show signs of worsening conditions.
Elsevier, together with Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly and Company, Pierre Fabre, Sanofi, Servier and others, has further refined and extended its drug-drug interaction risk calculator (DDIRC) within PharmaPendium. The DDIRC 2.0 aims to help scientists improve patient safety and effectively manage drug-drug interaction (DDI) risks across the drug development process. 
The Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital (ETZ) based in Tilburg and Waalwijk in the Netherlands is adopting a new digital training platform. It helps clinical staff optimize the use of its electronic patient dossier (EPD) system, Epic®. The healthcare organization is rolling out ANCILE Solutions’ uPerform platform after successful completion of an initial project in 2020. 
Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced the U.S. launch of NeuroSphere™ Virtual Clinic, a first-of-its-kind technology that allows patients to communicate with physicians, ensure proper settings and functionality, and receive new treatment settings remotely as needed. Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the NeuroSphere Virtual Clinic has the potential to 
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized marketing of the Hominis Surgical System, a new robotically-assisted surgical device (RASD) that can help facilitate transvaginal hysterectomy in certain patients. The Hominis Surgical System is intended for benign hysterectomy (removal of the uterus for non-cancerous conditions) with salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of one or both fallopian tubes and ovaries). 
First-line treatment of knee osteoarthritis is effectively delivered digitally without a need for traditional face-to-face physiotherapy visits, a new study finds. The research, independently undertaken by the University of Nottingham, led by Prof Ana Valdes from the Nottingham NIHR Biomedical Research Centre using Joint Academy's clinical and evidence-based digital treatment for chronic joint pain, addresses a rapidly growing health concern as hospital waiting lists are mounting while the NHS is expected to spend £118.6 billion on treating arthritis between 2017 and 2027 alone. "Virtual visits allow us to address patients’ health concerns, safely and effectively," says family medicine doctor Mark Rood, MD. Here, Dr. Rood explains how they work and what to expect.