NHS Hammersmith and Fulham Fight Smoking with Text Messaging Service
An innovative scheme to use mobile technology to obtain a patient's current smoking status and invite 'quitters' for Smoking Cessation services, has proved a great success in NHS Hammersmith and Fulham. NHS Hammersmith and Fulham have a smoking prevalence of 24.2% and are committed to cutting that number down every year.
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SOMATOM Emotion Sheds New Light on 2,500 Year Old Mummy
A team of radiographers from City University London recently examined a 2,500 year old Egyptian mummy named Tahemaa. A SOMATOMĀ® Emotion CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare was used to learn more about how Tahemaa died without damaging the corpse.
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The City of Bolzano Chooses IBM to Enable New Solutions for Citizens
The City of Bolzano, Italy and TIS Innovation Park have entered into a strategic initiative with IBM (NYSE: IBM), with the aim of creating a smart city. Bolzano, capital of South Tyrol in northern Italy, is the fifth Italian city to choose IBM to identify and design a new model for a sustainable city through a range of digital solutions. During the next few months a pilot project will be implemented for remote health monitoring of the elderly.
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Carestream Molecular Imaging Announces Availability of New Bone Density Image Analysis Software
Carestream Molecular Imaging, a division of Carestream Health, Inc., announced worldwide availability of a new Bone Density Software application that performs bone density analysis of small animals in vivo and measures mineral density of specimens in vitro.
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Mounting Popularity of Wireless and Handheld Devices to Support Uptake of e-Prescription Systems
Trends indicate a growing acceptance of the concept of e-prescription across Europe. Healthcare in Europe is becoming increasingly digitised as the healthcare delivery system undergoes tremendous change. However, electronic technology that is transforming various areas of business is yet to be fully explored in the area of medication prescription with challenges related to the poor basic level of automation and technical barriers to the ease of use first needing to be overcome.
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VAMED and c.a.r.u.s. HMS Signed a Cooperation Agreement
Hospital service provider VAMED and c.a.r.u.s. HMS have signed a cooperation agreement to broaden working closely on the introduction of modern IT-systems into hospitals. This new partnership combines knowledge and experience from both companies: VAMED offers IT solutions, adapted to the demands of each clinic's environment; c.a.r.u.s. HMS develops and distributes high performance software for hospitals.
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Agfa HealthCare's ORBIS Hospital/Clinical Information System Obtains SAP Interface Certification
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces that the interface between its leading Hospital and Clinical Information System (HIS/CIS) ORBIS and SAP Controlling (CO), SAP Material Management (MM) and SAP Financial (FI) has been certified. The certification was carried out by an authorized team of experts from SAP after having conducted an in-depth audit on the individual functionalities.
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