Grand Tour Cycle from Brussels to Barcelona to Raise Awareness of Diabetes and to Highlight the Benefits of mHealth
The GSMA announced the mHealth Grand Tour cycle ride, which will start in Brussels on the 5th September and finish in Barcelona on the 18th September 2013. The Grand Tour will bring together diabetes patient communities and the mobile and healthcare industries to raise awareness of diabetes and to promote healthy and active living, and showcase how mobile technology can help address the challenge of managing the condition and reduce the cost of care.
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NHS Foundation Trust Hospital to Change How Patient and Family-Centered Care is Delivered
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has successfully implemented Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM). The activation occurred the week of June 24th; a mere 15 months from the project start date.
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Opinion Article: Monitoring the Homecare Crisis
By Devin Chawda, Managing Director, Y-cam.
Recent exposure in the media has uncovered a 'looming crisis' in low standards of care provided by "at-home" care services for the elderly, and brought it directly to the public eye. The figures are a real cause for concern. According to Care Minister Norman Lamb, there are over 300,000 people currently relying on homecare services in the UK, yet a third of all care and nursing homes in England aren't meeting the necessary standards.
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Opinion Article: I am a CEO and I Make Mistakes
By Shane Tickell, CEO, IMS MAXIMS.
I am a CEO of a health technology company and I make mistakes, probably everyday. As the leader of an organisation, I am accountable for those mistakes, need to learn from them and, where possible, rectify them. In addition to that, every single member of my team has a specific set of responsibilities and when they make a mistake they too must recognise it and be accountable for that.
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Opinion Article: Patients, Pillows and Pounds
By Stuart Rankin, CEO of Cayder.
With the NHS in England needing to find between £15 and £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014, there is clearly a very immediate case for helping ward staff work as productively as possible. In addition, there are concerns over shortages in frontline staff, including a potential shortfall of nearly 200,000 nurses, reported by Nursing Times back in February this year.
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NHS Foundation Trust Hospital to Deliver Coordinated Care with Sunrise Clinical Manager
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has successfully implemented Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM). The activation occurred the weekend of June 8th; three months ahead of schedule, and on budget. Sunrise Clinical Manager is an acute care Electronic Health Record. The new system will help Salford Royal, one of the UK's highest regarded healthcare providers, transform its caregiving.
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Anoto Digital Writing Technology Used by Almost Half of Scottish NHS Boards
Anoto, leader in digital writing technologies, announced that almost half of NHS Boards across Scotland are using its digital writing technologies. The digital pens have been deployed across the Scottish NHS Health Boards in order to achieve the Government's target of making the NHS fully digitised by 2018, as well as deliver more time dedicated to patient care.
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