IMS MAXIMS Aims to Reduce 25,000 Preventable Deaths a Year
IMS MAXIMS, a leading provider of clinical information systems, is implementing software into NHS trusts that will ensure risk assessments take place that will help to significantly reduce the number of preventable deaths caused by VTE in UK hospitals every year.
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Commission Awards Prizes to Best eHealth SMEs
European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes has awarded prizes to eHealth SMEs from Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom as part of eHealth Week 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. The winners of the 2nd EU SME eHealth Competition came up with innovations in areas such as improving cognitive behavioural therapy for mental care, improving physiological monitoring, and people facing emergencie.
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East Cheshire NHS Trust Selects HCS and Net.Orange to Help Deliver Vision for Joined-Up Care
East Cheshire NHS Trust is to partner with HCS, to help drive forward the development of integrated care across Eastern Cheshire's Health and Social Care system. The HCS Care Coordination service will provide expert assistance to the Trust to support the delivery of integrated care as a key partner in Eastern Cheshire's Caring Together Programme, which aims to commission and deliver patient-centred joined up, pro-active care services.
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Opinion Article: Mobile Technology - The Key to Service Transformation in NHSScotland
By Colin Reid, Chief Executive of TotalMobile.
Both the new Scottish eHealth strategy and a range of service transformation projects and initiatives in Scotland are being driven by the need for health boards to do more with less. More people are now living with long-term conditions than ever before - around two million people in Scotland, or 40% of the population - and the number is rising.
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East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Chooses Innovative Clinical Portal
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has selected Harris Healthcare's Clinical Integration Platform to help fulfill its vision of providing a paperless and mobile clinical environment as part of a wider modernisation programme. The trust, which has signed a pilot agreement for 500 licences, will use the clinical portal to enable the organisation to bring together patient information from numerous different clinical systems that currently work in isolation.
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HIMSS Europe Signs a Collaboration Contract with AVISA
HIMSS Europe and AVISA (the Valencia Association of Health Informatics) have signed a collaboration agreement with which HIMSS reaffirms its strong commitment to Spain, being the leading country in Europe in terms of its adoption and use of electronic medical records.
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COCIR Event Shows The Reality Of The Digital Hospital
At a COCIR' event in Brussels yesterday on 'Digital Hospitals: Healthcare transformation from electronic patient records to fully connected hospitals', speakers from the European Commission, OECD, hospitals and industry came together to discuss how to maximise the use of health ICT to drive efficiency in hospitals while maintaining a highest level of quality and safety.
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IMS MAXIMS, a leading provider of clinical information systems, is implementing software into NHS trusts that will ensure risk assessments take place that will help to significantly reduce the number of preventable deaths caused by VTE in UK hospitals every year. 
European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes has awarded prizes to eHealth SMEs from Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom as part of eHealth Week 2013 in Dublin, Ireland. The winners of the 2nd EU SME eHealth Competition came up with innovations in areas such as improving cognitive behavioural therapy for mental care, improving physiological monitoring, and people facing emergencie. 
HIMSS Europe and AVISA (the Valencia Association of Health Informatics) have signed a collaboration agreement with which HIMSS reaffirms its strong commitment to Spain, being the leading country in Europe in terms of its adoption and use of electronic medical records. 
At a COCIR' event in Brussels yesterday on 'Digital Hospitals: Healthcare transformation from electronic patient records to fully connected hospitals', speakers from the European Commission, OECD, hospitals and industry came together to discuss how to maximise the use of health ICT to drive efficiency in hospitals while maintaining a highest level of quality and safety.