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By Kurt J. Long, Founder and CEO of FairWarning, Inc.
Dramatic changes are taking place which mean that leaders in healthcare must rapidly become leaders in patient privacy. This is essential for the reputation of their organisations and the protection of patients and staff. Events are being driven by two powerful and converging forces – demand and regulation.

The Prime Minister’s

By Shane Tickell, CEO, IMS MAXIMS.
As an ardent believer in the need for progress in healthcare I shouldn’t suffer nostalgia for the NHS of yesteryear. But, like many others, there are moments when I have the sense that something has been lost. You know the sort of thing – the lament for a golden era where the GP was almost an extension of the family. We popped to the surgery to

Dell is bringing its Unified Clinical Archiving (UCA) solution to the United Kingdom to help hospital clinicians simplify how they manage and share medical images between disparate Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) used in radiology, cardiology, neurosurgery, endoscopy, mammography and digital pathology, and manage the proliferation of imaging data in patient care.

Dell’s

The research – commissioned by BD and performed by MindMetre – reveals that 49% of NHS trusts do not appear to have any form of ‘safety-only device’ policy in place, and only 32% have made a move to a partial or total safety needle system.

This seems to fly in the face of a 2010 EU Directive that calls for improvements in health worker safety standards by May 2013. The directive

iSOFT, a CSC company, and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust are to jointly explore using new software to extract and anonymise clinical information for research and clinical trials, in one of the first projects of its type in the UK.

“Clinical information held by NHS trusts is of huge value in clinical research and offers these trusts a potential income stream,”

DrFirst connects all the stakeholders of the healthcare industry including physicians, patients, hospitals, health plans, and EHR/EMR vendors through solutions that help doctors make more informed decisions that drive positive clinical outcomes for patients….

With healthcare costs rising and hospitals all over the world creaking under the strain of user demand, new and innovative approaches to diagnosis and treatment are required to maintain standards in a challenging healthcare environment….

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