Cancer treatment patients get symptoms remotely monitored at home
Patients undergoing chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatment are being offered a new remote care service that monitors their progress and helps them manage symptoms at home.
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Industry Spotlight: Stephen McMillan and Charlotte James, Philips UKI
Stephen McMillan, solutions leader at Philips UKI, and Charlotte James, business manager CT, AMI, and radiation oncology talk to Jennifer Trueland about the benefits that AI solutions are bringing to patients, staff, and to the NHS as a whole.
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The Christie becomes first specialist cancer trust to deploy CardMedic
The Christie has deployed the CardMedic app to help address communication barriers at the trust and tackle health inequalities.
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Wirral implements oncology management system for blood cancer
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation has become the first in the UK to implement a Cerner-supplied oncology management system for better management of patients with blood cancer.
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Health CIO profile: Thomas Poulter
The IM&T director at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is revamping its IT ahead of a move to a new hospital in 2018. Sam Sachdeva reports.
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Sheffield improves results turnaround
Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has halved the turnaround time for test results after going live with an in-house cancer diagnostic system.
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Wireless supports Weston e-prescribing
The oncology day unit at Weston General Hospital has adopted a wireless system to enable it to carry out efficient e-prescribing.
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Siemens signs Impac oncology deal
Siemens Healthcare and Impac Medical Systems have extended their cooperation agreement for information systems for oncology. Under the latest agreement, Siemens will offer the Mosaiq software as its next generation oncology information system (OIS). Customers using its Lantis software, the OIS currently sold by Siemens, will have the option of upgrading or continuing to use […]
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‘EuroGoogle for cancer’ launched
An new initiative to boost cancer prevention, treatment and care across Europe by improving communications has been described by one its leaders as ‘EuroGoogle for cancer’.
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Carestream chosen for Israel-wide RIS-PACS
Carestream Health has been awarded a €19.4m ($25m) country-wide contract for a RIS-PACS project across Israel’s Clalit Health Services. The Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), and Radiology Information System (RIS) and central archiving solution will be deployed across all Clalit’s hospitals and imaging centers in Israel. Clalit Health Services is a health management organisation […]
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