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IT and Communications in Healthcare - Clinical Portals |
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| Clinical software
: 21 April, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT - Clinical portals - technology to empower health service delivery: The NHS can achieve significant improvements in patient experience and outcomes by making better use of its existing IT argues Wayne Parslow, European Vice President and General Manager, Carefx. |
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IT and Communications in Healthcare - Managing Information |
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| Data storage and management
: 21 April, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT - ICO issues health warning to care sector for data breaches: Fewer things are more private and personal than medical records suggests Christian Toon, Head of Information Risk at Iron Mountain, so it is not surprising that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is putting its foot down when it comes to health care data breaches. |
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IT and Communications in Healthcare - IT Automation |
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| IT services
: 21 April, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT - Improving the way healthcare IT systems are managed: The public sector is bracing itself for one of the toughest years yet points out Koby Amedume, Kaseya's marketing director because the cuts introduced last year mean many local authorities now face smaller budgets which could well have a detrimental impact on service provision. |
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IT and Communications in Healthcare –Electronic Healthcare Records |
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| Medical records and document management
: 21 April, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Applying a high value approach to Electronic Healthcare Records: ThomasSenger, Senior Vice President, EMEA Software and Solutions, Kofax, explores how patient care, customer service and profitability benefit from advanced integration between paper and electronic records. |
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IT and Communications in Healthcare – IT Services in the Public Sector |
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| IT services
: 21 April, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT - A poll of public sector managers by Siemens IT Solutions and Services reports that enhancing relationships with the private sector and looking at the end outcomes of projects rather than at rules-based procurement represent the emerging mindsets inside local authorities, central government, health and justice departments (Ref 1). |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – Data Management |
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| Data storage and management
: 21 April, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT - BridgeHead Software is inviting IT professionals from healthcare institutions worldwide to complete an online questionnaire for the second annual Healthcare IT Leadership Perspectives: Data Management Survey. |
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Mind the gap – tackling the procurement challenge |
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| Asset management software
: 28 March, 2011 |
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As a new financial year dawns, Joel Haspel, Chief Executive Officer of Sentient Health explains why money worries are very much on the minds of NHS managers. |
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The power of patient information |
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| Patient management software
: 25 March, 2011 |
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Shane Tickell, Chief Executive Officer of IMS MAXIMS, argues that a bolder and more imaginative approach to patient information could radically improve patient satisfaction levels and cut complaints in the NHS. |
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Diagnostics and Medical Imaging – Research |
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| Research studies
: 28 January, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Scientists from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg report that two relatively simple methods, an ultrasound investigation and a blood test to measure the level of a substance known as BNP, can predict survival and future heart failure following acute coronary syndromes. |
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Diagnostics and Medical Imaging – Interoperability |
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| DICOM equipment
: 28 January, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Merge Healthcare is deploying an imaging distribution solution for the physicians of UMass Memorial Health Care, an academic medical centre with five facilities serving Central New England. |
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Diagnostics and Medical Imaging – Patient focused care |
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| Computed tomography systems (CT)
: 28 January, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Siemens Healthcare is launching FAST CARE, a new technology platform for CT which is expected to offer patient benefits including shorter examination times and lower dose exposures. |
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Diagnostics and Medical Imaging – Intellectual property |
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| Diagnostic imaging
: 28 January, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – ICAP Ocean Tomo, the intellectual property brokerage division of ICAP which claims to be the world's premier patent auction firm, is organising the sale of x-ray imaging patents from the inventor Till Keesmann. |
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Diagnostics and Medical Imaging – Data management |
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| Data storage and management
: 28 January, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Healthcare Storage Virtualization company, BridgeHead Software is attributing its dynamic 2010 growth to the company’s singular focus on developing and delivering data and storage management offerings that meet the needs of the healthcare market. |
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Diagnostics and Medical Imaging – MEMS |
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| Test kits and testing equipment
: 28 January, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Microvisk Technologies, the developer of a handheld system to monitor the blood clotting status of patients taking the drug Warfarin, raises £6 million through a rights issue to existing investors in an oversubscribed round. |
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Diagnostics and Medical Imaging – Imaging Innovation |
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| Positron emission tomography (PET)
: 28 January, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – A new imaging system is the first new Philips modality in ten years and integrates the molecular imaging capabilities of PET (positron emission tomography) with the superior soft tissue contrast of MR (magnetic resonance) to image disease cells as they proliferate in soft tissue. |
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Diagnostics and Medical Imaging – Point-of-care diagnostics |
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| Test kits and testing equipment
: 28 January, 2011 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Philips and bioMerieux achieve an important milestone in the development of fully-automated handheld rapid diagnostic test solutions for use in hospitals at the point-of-care with the successful integration of bioMerieux’s assay technology and Philips’ Magnotech rapid diagnostic testing technology into a disposable cartridge and handheld reader combination. |
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Ask the Experts - Protecting Healthcare Data |
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| Data storage and management
: 06 December, 2010 |
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FOCUS ZONE ON DATA MANAGEMENT - Paul Buckley, Prohealthservicezone's editor interviews Tony Cotterill, Chief Executive of BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization company - Part Two
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Ask the Experts - Data Management Challenges in Healthcare |
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| Data storage and management
: 24 November, 2010 |
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FOCUS ZONE ON DATA MANAGEMENT - Paul Buckley, Prohealthservicezone’s editor interviews Tony Cotterill, Chief Executive of BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization company - Part One |
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Plans to ring fence the NHS budget are questioned by experts |
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| Business development services
: 24 September, 2010 |
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Ring fencing the NHS budget makes political, not business sense, argued Dr Alan Davies, Chief Medical Officer of General Electric Healthcare, Europe, Middle East and Africa, at the inaugural Innovative Healthcare Meeting held recently at the Birmingham Conservatoire which brought together NHS executives, business leaders, scientists, policy makers and financial advisors looking to build new partnerships to support innovation and improve the economics of healthcare. |
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An easy route to better patient safety |
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| Asset management software
: 10 September, 2010 |
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Joel Haspel, Chief Executive Officer, Sentient Health, looks at the issues relating to poor stock control and the significant impact it can have on patient safety and cancelled procedures. |
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MEDICAL INNOVATION – LIMS |
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| Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
: 30 June, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Thermo Fisher Scientific wins the Microsoft Corporation 2009 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in the Discovery and Product Innovation category, for the second consecutive year. |
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MEDICAL INNOVATION – RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT |
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| Research institutes
: 30 June, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Improving the lives of people living with osteoarthritis is to be the focus of a new £11 million research centre at Imperial College London. |
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MEDICAL INNOVATION – DELIVERING THE FUTURE |
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| Development services
: 30 June, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Imagine a hospital with an inflatable operating theatre, a robot that helps doctors perform complex surgery and a device that can be used to take out your gallbladder through your belly button. |
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MEDICAL INNOVATION – MICROPUMPS |
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| Pumps and dispensers
: 30 June, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – In biomedicine and biotechnology the smallest, complex, compound sample quantities needs to be reliably processed and microsystems with new mechanisms of action for pumping, filtering and separating will manage this task with great efficiency in the future. |
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MEDICAL INNOVATION – POWER SUPPLIES |
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| Power supplies and devices
: 30 June, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – XP Power has introduced the world's first 250 W AC/DC power supply that achieves up to 95 percent efficiency and has been specifically designed to reduce the heat generated in medical, IT and industrial systems. |
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LABORATORY AND ANALYTICAL – OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY |
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| Microscopy equipment
: 29 May, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – A new high speed imaging capability is being added to Michelson Diagnostics’ EX1301 OCT Microscope which is designed to reveal microscopic detail below the surface of tissue samples instantly, without affecting or damaging them, and with no special preparation. |
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LABORATORY AND ANALYTICAL – ASSAY EQUIPMENT |
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| Assay equipment and chemicals
: 29 May, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – A collaborative development venture between Universal Sensors, Nottingham Trent University and Cambridge Design Partnership is aiming to help in the fight against C difficile and MRSA. |
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LABORATORY AND ANALYTICAL – MONITORING EQUIPMENT |
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| Laboratory equipment
: 29 May, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – IKS International based in Rosmalen, The Netherlands is introducing an innovative cooled 9 litre Personal Incubator that features a ventilated interior and good temperature distribution. |
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LABORATORY AND ANALYTICAL – LIMS |
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| Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
: 29 May, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Thermo Fisher Scientific introduces new functionality to the latest release of its Thermo Scientific Watson LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) that brings critical time and cost savings to pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations (CROs) involved in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic (DMPK) studies for drug discovery and development. |
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LABORATORY AND ANALYTICAL – CHROMATOGRAPHY |
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| Chromatography equipment
: 29 May, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – The Chromatographic Society is partnering with L.A.B. - the European trade fair and conference for analysis, bio and laboratory equipment in the UK that will be held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham from October 27-29, 2009. |
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LABORATORY AND ANALYTICAL – MASS SPECTROMETRY |
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| Mass spectrometer
: 29 May, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Agilent Technologies and Anderson Forschung Group (AFG) are collaborating to develop quantitative peptide assays to speed protein biomarker discovery and validation. |
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LABORATORY AND ANALYTICAL – MICROPLATES |
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| Laboratory equipment
: 29 May, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT –Eppendorf’s Polypropylene Microplates 96 and 384 feature a high level of transparency, an easy-to-read OptiTrack labelling matrix and innovative RecoverMax well geometry for maximum sample recovery. |
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Agendia opens a clinical genomics laboratory in California |
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| Contract research
: 27 May, 2009 |
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Agendia opens a US clinical genomics laboratory in Huntington Beach, California, USA which is fully-licensed and compliant with the Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA) as administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – CHALLENGES IN THE USA |
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| Institutes, Royal Colleges and Trade Associations
: 30 April, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Findings released recently from the 20th annual HIMSS leadership survey shows that commitment to Healthcare IT remains a concern with electronic medical record, computerised provider order entry, security and financial issues being the main areas of consternation. |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – SPEECH RECOGNITION |
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| Speech recognition systems
: 30 April, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – At the HIMSS 2009 conference in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Nuance Communications revealed results from a new study that shows how Nuance’s Dragon Medical software, the healthcare industry’s most widely used real-time speech recognition software, is capable of accelerating the transition to, and utilisation of electronic health records (EHRs). |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – DATA SECURITY |
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| Security and compliance software
: 30 April, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – IT and data security specialists, Network Defence is launching what is claimed to be the UK’s first ever N3 network vulnerability scanning service for NHS Trusts. |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – TELEMONITORING |
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| Patient management software
: 30 April, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Early this month more than 400 plus delegates from 26 different countries attended The 9th Annual Spring Meeting of the European Society of Cardiology Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (CCNAP), organised in cooperation with the Irish Nurses Cardiovascular Association (INCA) and held at the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland. |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS |
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| Telemedicine and telehealth equipment
: 30 April, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – A portable medical consultation system that operates in real-time, is the latest technological communications solution for hospitals, rural clinics, physicians and nurses developed by GlobalMedia, an Arizona-based innovator of video imaging and visual communications solutions used in the practice of telemedicine. |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – MEDICAL RECORD INTEGRATION |
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| Medical records and document management
: 30 April, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – Viztek, the Jacksonville-based medical imaging solution provider, is introducing an innovative Web-based interface with electronic medical record (EMR) systems for its family of PACS offerings. |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – PATIENT CARE |
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| Patient management software
: 30 April, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – St Jude Medical receives European CE Mark approval of its Merlin.net Patient Care Network (PCN) which is a secure, Internet-based remote care system that gathers and stores data from the implant procedure, a clinic follow-up visit or from remote follow-up transmissions of patients with implanted cardiac devices. |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – INTEROPERABILITY |
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| Practice management equipment
: 30 April, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – QuadraMed is collaborating with e-MDs to enable QuadraMed’s hospital clients to offer an interoperable, state-of-the-art ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solution to affiliated physician group practices. |
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IT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN HEALTHCARE – WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY |
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| Communications equipment
: 30 April, 2009 |
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FOCUS ZONE REPORT – The E-Tech Awards are designed to give industry recognition and exposure to the best wireless products and services. Nearly 300 applications were submitted and reviewed by a panel of recognized members of the media, industry analysts and executives. |
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