IT underpins development of NHS Direct
NHS Direct is banking on new technology to help deliver better services and cope with record levels of demand, Joe Fernandez reports.
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It’s all about access
David Baker, MD of Clinical Solutions, tells Jon Hoeksma, that his company’s strategy is based on providing the means to access to health services, no matter the point of contact or circumstances.
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Mobile phones: the new tool to combat AIDS in Africa
Mobile phones will be used to help fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, it was announced at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. A public-private partnership between five member groups of the mobile phone industry and the US government has formed the Phones for Health initiative. Phones for Health is a $10m scheme aimed at […]
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IBM to develop pandemic software with WHO
IBM’s research division has announced that they are to collaborate with the World Health Organisation in supplying software to help combat and predict pandemics. IBM have promised to develop two systems; an Interoperable Healthcare Information Infrastructure – a technology to help clinicians and researchers share information and health data on infectious diseases. Big Blue will […]
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Flu software helps plan healthcare resources
The US-based Centre for Disease Control, part of the Department for Health and Human Services, has released free software to allow healthcare professionals to plan and estimate demand for hospitalisation and health services during an influenza pandemic. FluAid 2.0, and the accompanying spreadsheet FluSurge 1.0, is based on recent scientific studies of the effects of […]
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