Agfa HealthCare will focus on "Integrated Clinical and Visual Care" at EHI Live, being held from 3-4 November 2015 in Birmingham, UK. Building on its 100+ years of experience, Agfa HealthCare continues to develop innovations with designs that keep the user and customer in mind. At EHI Live, Agfa HealthCare will show how this focus has resulted in concrete achievements, integrating XERO across both Agfa and non-Agfa platforms,

A smartphone pilot study has highlighted a potential solution for white coat syndrome - the medical phenomenon responsible for sending some patients’ blood pressure soaring in the GP surgery. Patient Angela Howard was able to prove that her surgery blood pressure test results were uncharacteristically high and not an accurate reflection of her actual health in a month-long trial of the Personal Health Record (PHR) within EMIS Health's Patient Access app.

Medelinked, the online health platform that empowers healthcare engagement and management, is now available free to medical practitioners and healthcare professionals. The Medelinked Health Partner Portal enables them to create health accounts for their patients and clients and safely and securely upload health records directly through the Portal to an individual patient or client's online Medelinked account.

Opinion Article by Chris Scarisbrick, Sectra UK & Ireland.
The advent of the radiology picture archiving and communication system, or PACS, signalled an early and pioneering shift to digital within NHS hospitals some 15 years ago. As an NHS radiographer, and then PACS manager, during the early parts of this journey, I witnessed first-hand the end of working with restrictive light boxes and acetates, and the improved flow of information that resulted from the new technology.

East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) is saving £40 million and 116,000 unnecessary ambulance journeys a year, by using clinical support system Odyssey from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced) to manage 999 calls. The software has enabled 16% of the 2,000 daily emergency calls received, to be responded to with appropriate telephone advice - saving 320 ambulance journeys every day.

Carestream Nordic region recently held a highly successful HCIS User Group meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. Customers, including radiologists, RIS/PACS Managers and IT Specialists from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, attended the event, held at the headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Medelinked, an online health application that empowers healthcare engagement and management, announced today it has launched the Medelinked App on the Salesforce AppExchange and become a Registered Salesforce ISV partner. Medelinked Health Cloud and API is a leading solution already powering some of the best mHealth applications, allowing developers to create a series of new applications that deliver real health benefits to the end user and healthcare professionals.