The head of BlackBerry’s enterprise services business is plotting an aggressive launch of a new version of the company’s core enterprise server later this year as BlackBerry seeks to regain some of the ground it’s lost ...
With the latest expansion of its global telemedicine efforts, UPMC is now offering physicians in India access to its world-renowned medical expertise to improve care for patients. Through advanced, web-based technology, UPMC physicians ...
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Nearly 80 percent of U.S. office-based doctors used some type of electronic health record for patients in 2013, up from 18 percent in 2001, officials say. Chun-Ju Hsiao and Esther Hing of the National Center for Health Statistics -- part ...
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Virginia Mason announced today it has received the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ for the fourth consecutive year from Healthgrades, an online resource for comprehensive information about U.S. physicians and ...
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: SafeSpout and SafeShower Water Filtration Products Recalled At least one death has been linked to recalled SafeSpout and SafeShower ...
Canada-based LED Medical Diagnostics has announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, LED Dental, has entered into a non-exclusive partnership with Benco Dental for the distribution of the company's VELscope Vx enhanced oral assessment system ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned organisations that even temporary workers need data protection training in order to properly prevent against a breach. Its warning comes following four data breaches at the Great ...
US-based HD Medical has announced the launch of its ViScope MD visual stethoscope with murmur detection indicator at MEDICA, 20 November through 23 November 2013, in Germany. ViScope MD features an integrated visual display which allows ...
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Pharmaceutical and healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will roll out two-dimensional (2D) barcodes on the inner containers as well as outer boxes for most of its US vaccines. According to the company, a 2D barcode is a small square ...
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Box is taking steps to increase usage of its cloud storage and file sharing system in the health care industry, where it sees a demand for tools that simplify content collaboration. The company hired an external auditor to certify that it ...
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Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) has announced an agreement with HP, allowing the enterprise services provider to implement an electronic patient records (EPR) system eHospital programme aimed at improving services. Worth over ...
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Today's launch of St Helens and Knowsley Informatics Service's medical record digitisation service should prove a welcome development for an NHS suffering space, staff and security problems in its ongoing battle with paper medical record ...
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IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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EHI, ehi.co.uk the UK's preeminent independent health IT news, research, and events firm, announced today that it has formed a partnership with leading US health technology research firm KLAS Enterprises. The new partnership between EHI ...
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Foundation Trust says new content management system will sit alongside electronic patient records system. The Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (LHCH), a leading provider in cardiothoracic services, has augmented its ...