IBM and Karantis360 team up for IoT assisted living system
UK-based care management provider Karantis360 has partnered with IBM to develop a sensor system designed for social care and health settings.
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Digital Health Summer Schools 2018 – Waiting list
Digital Health’s Summer Schools have become firmly established as the essential digital health leadership event of the year, focused on collaboration, practical best practice sessions and site visits and essential knowledge exchange.
Attended by over 400 digital NHS leaders from across the UK and Irish health and care systems, the three, two-day residential Summer Schools will have both dedicated tracks and share site visits, a networking dinner and interactive workshops. Together they will provide a unique environment to network and collaborate and is the year’s most important gathering of NHS IT leaders.
Come hell or high water: North Cumbria opens IT-ready hospital
There has been little good news to come out of flood-hit Cumbria recently. But North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust is running a new hospital with the infrastructure to support big IT plans. Tom Meek went to take a look.
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Cards could link exercise and benefits
Councils could use smartcards to link prescribed exercise packages to benefits, a think-tank report on the role of local authorities in public health has suggested.
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EHI Awards 2011: Boxing clever
When NHS Sefton realised that its online information tools were failing to reach some of its neediest residents, it decided to turn to a tried and tested method of communication – the television. Rebecca Todd reports.
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Cuts hit IT investment, EHI survey shows
NHS trusts are looking to “sweat” their current IT systems instead of invest “in new toys” as they struggle with efficiency saving demands.
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Intelligent buildings workshop
A workgroup on intelligent buildings and assistive home technology will be held in Belgium at the end of September. The workshop will take place in two different venues across Belgium, in Bruges on the 24 and in Gits on the 25 September 2009. The workshop will be run by the CIB W098 workgroup for Intelligent […]
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Fujitsu Siemens launches health tablet PC
Fujitsu Siemens computers has launched the ESPRIMO MA, a mobile tablet PC for the health sector.
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GSM Doorbell opens up access to carers
Wireless specialists Waleli are launching a GSM Doorbell product in the UK which reduces response time for emergency calls to house-bound patients. GSM Doorbell is a mobile phone application that allows people to answer their doorbell, talk to visitors and even open the door – whether they are at home or not. As it has the ability […]
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Flashing ‘orb’ to help medication adherence
A US software development company is conducting research to see if using a "flashing orb" on a pill box could improve medication adherence among patients. Partners Healthcare Telemedicine Group (PHTG) has appointed software developers Claricode Inc to test whether using a coloured flashing light on a Smart Pillbox, connected to a mobile phone network, would […]
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