Established NHS Chief Executive and Former Clinician Appointed Chief Medical Officer at Healthcare Technology Provider
Sir Jonathan Michael, a distinguished clinician and former chief executive of three NHS trusts is to be appointed as chief medical officer (CMO) of 6PM, a provider of clinical workflow, healthcare logistics and information management software solutions during October 2015. Sir Jonathan has had a long and varied career, working for many years as a consultant nephrologist before moving into hospital management.
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Sanofi to Collaborate with Google Life Sciences to Improve Diabetes Health Outcomes
Sanofi and the life sciences team at Google are collaborating to improve care and outcomes for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The collaboration will pair Sanofi's leadership in diabetes treatments and devices with Google's expertise in analytics, miniaturized electronics and low power chip design.
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London Parents to Manage their Child's Health Digitally with eRedbook
The digital version of the Personal Child Health Record, eRedbook, will soon become available for parents and health professionals in the London region. A number of NHS Trusts will start implementing the eRedbook service before the new year in order to meet their CQUIN objectives, moving towards giving parents a complete record of their child's health.
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Gustave Roussy Chooses RayStation as its Main Treatment Planning System
Since its creation 70 years ago, Gustave Roussy has developed an innovative model of comprehensive care and a large network of satellite centers and partners, both nationally in France as affiliated to the Unicancer Federation, and internationally as a member of the Cancer Core Europe consortium, which consists of six European centers of excellence in oncology.
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Diabetes Tools to Acquire DiabetesGuru Child App
Diabetes Tools Sweden AB, maker of the TriabetesClinic online service that puts apps at the heart of diabetes care plans, today agreed to acquire the DiabetesGuru smartphone app for children from Shore Innovation AB. This agreement transfers the rights to Diabetes Tools while still allowing the developer behind DiabetesGuru, Henrik Sjöstrand, to support the project with advice.
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BridgeHead VNA at Forefront of North Middlesex University Hospital's Data Transformation Programme
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust has selected BridgeHead Software's Independent Clinical Archive, HealthStore™, also referred to as a next generation Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA), to assist it in the long-term storage, protection and sharing of radiology images following its exit from the National Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) contracts.
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11health Raises £1.25 Million from Leading City Figures
11health, a British medical technology business, has completed a new round of funding, raising a total of £775,000 from six angel investors, on top of the initial funding round of £500,000. This brings the total funding to over £1.25 million. This round of funding enables the business to extend the management team and more effectively pursue an aggressive sales and marketing strategy in the UK and the US.
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