IBM Teams with Google and Continua Health Alliance to Move Data Into Google Health and Other PHRs
IBM (NYSE: IBM), in collaboration with Google and the Continua Health Alliance, announced new software that will enable personal medical devices used for patient monitoring, screening and routine evaluation to automatically stream data results into a patient's Google Health Account or other personal health record (PHR).
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Philips Revealed as Biggest Healthcare Winner in Prestigious Annual iF Product Design Awards
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE:PHG, AEX:PHI) has been recognized with eight healthcare awards in the highly prestigious iF product design competition 2009, making it the biggest category winner ever in iF's history.
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Diakonie Berlin turns to Digital Pen and Paper
Time pressure, cost cutting and reams of paperwork - the daily routine for health and social care workers often equates to tilting at windmills. Diakonie- Pflege Verbund Berlin - which provides social care services in Germany's capital - turned to technology to address these pressures more effectively and improve both quality of care and staff working conditions.
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3M Announces Launch of the 3M RFID Patient Record Tracking Solution
Diversified technology company 3M has announced the launch of its new RFID enabled Patient Record Tracking Solution. With a successful track record in RFID related markets and technologies, 3M now offers a solution that allows hospital staff to quickly and easily locate any of their Patient Records.
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Childhood Immunisation via SMS in Southwark PCT
GP surgeries in Southwark Primary Care Trust (PCT) have been using iPLATO's text messaging solution to invite patients for their MMR jab and to alert parents of the recent measles outbreaks in local schools within the Borough.
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iSOFT Signs Deals with Two Dutch Hospitals for 8.8 million
IBA Health Group Limited (ASX: IBA), Australia's largest listed health information technology company, announced that its iSOFT European business has signed contracts with two major hospital groups in the Netherlands totalling 8.8 million ($17.6 million).
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SonoDrugs Project to Develop Image-Guided Localized Drug Delivery Technologies
Royal Philips Electronics today announced that it is leading a major new European project to develop drug delivery technologies that could significantly impact the treatment of cancer and cardiovascular disease. By allowing drugs to be delivered to disease sites via the patient's bloodstream and then activated by focused ultrasound pulses, the SonoDrugs project aims to maximize the therapeutic efficiency and minimize the side effects of drug treatments for cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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