Analytics is going to become a key element of healthcare in the not too distant future, offering vast improvements to the care to be provided for patients. That's according to Bob Gladden, vice president of decision support and ...
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The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has selected IT services and solutions provider Mastek to develop an identity and access management service. The announcement comes as part of the NHS Spine re-procurement and ...
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Xylem has launched a new process performance optimizer that uses real time controls and data to help significantly reduce the energy consumption of a wastewater treatment facility. When installed as part of an energy efficient treatment ...
The NHS has selected US developer Basho's open source database Riak to underpin its efforts to rebuild its Spine infrastructure. The new project, dubbed Spine2, will replace the existing infrastructure that was implemented as part of the ...
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The BBC is launching a new initiative that aims to "bring digital technology and computer coding to even more homes, businesses and schools" over the coming years, in a bid to plug the UK's digital skills gap. Government and industry are ...
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Accelrys, a US-based provider of lifecycle management solutions, has completed the roll-out of its next-generation cheminformatics suite, with the launch of Accelrys Insight and Accelrys Insight for Excel. Both the solutions will help in ...
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Rudolph Technologies Inc of Flanders, NJ, USA, which makes defect inspection, process control metrology, and data analysis systems and software for manufacturing integrated circuits as well as flat-panel displays, solar cells and LEDs, has ...
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Brookfield Engineering announced the release of RheocalcT Software delivering total control of both instrument and test parameters. RheocalcT gives the operator the ability to fully automated viscosity testing from a dedicated PC when using ...
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Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a data analysis company, to better leverage users' tweets about television to draw in more advertisers. Trendrr analyzes data from social media sites such as Twitter to help businesses grow their brands. The ...
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There's a "lump in the learning curve" for some organisations to overcome in the adoption and use of NoSQL databases. That's what James Tomkins, Met Office Portfolio Technical Lead, told Computing while discussing the organisation's use of ...
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A report on 14 of the UK's hospital trusts with persistently high mortality rates has found that staff struggled to comprehend data to improve performances. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh was asked by the Secretary of State for Health, and ...
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Cancer Research UK has appointed games and software development agency Guerilla Tea, to develop the charity's first mobile phone game, to accurately locate new genetic causes of cancer, thus boosting potential new cures. Based on the ...
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Oracle is introducing a new generation of its Exalytics appliance for high-speed data analysis that comes with a slightly higher price tag but major increases in memory and storage capacity. Exalytics In-Memory Machine X3-4, which was ...
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Lotus F1 has selected Juniper Networks to build mission-critical networking infrastructure to aid its racing, testing and car design. The announcement comes days before Lotus competes at the Formula One World Championship British Grand ...
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The working world is undergoing"disaggregation"from physical location,time and information availability constraints,says Jim Henrys,an enterprise strategist at semiconductor giant Intel,in a process that is driving a revolutionary change in ...
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