Dublin's Temple Street Children's University Hospital recently re-opened their Top Flat ward - equipped with patient entertainment units from Lincor. These PatientLINC devices are initially focused on providing TV, movies, Radio, Movies on demand and the ability to plug in the child's own games console but there are advanced plans to enhance the offering by including internet access, video messaging, patient information and patient surveys in the short term.

By Matt Hunt of Apadmi and Dr. Farid Khan of eLucid mHealth.
The mHealth market has never been in better shape with a flurry of start-ups and established players developing hardware and solutions that will change the face of modern day medicine. The drivers of change include better managing the increasing burden of ageing populations, the need for improved healthcare in remote and developed geographies and the opportunities that technology brings for diagnostics, preventative medicine and patient monitoring.

IMS MAXIMS has been named as one of 11 open source suppliers in a 'catalogue' designed to support NHS England’s technology fund two, officially called the Integrated Digital Care Fund, which opened for applications last week.

InterSystems, a global leader in software for connected care, today announced that the UK Renal Registry has chosen InterSystems HealthShare® as its new national health informatics platform, gathering data from 84 adult and paediatric renal units, plus satellite haemodialysis units, on over 56,000 patients suffering from stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Times are changing: the era of fragmented healthcare is nearing its end. Awareness has been growing in many health systems as a result of the major challenges which lie ahead - growing pressure on healthcare resources due to demographic change; increasing quality requirements, and tightening of budgets - can only be met by restructuring the whole approach to the provision of healthcare.

Impacted by adverse currency effects, Agfa HealthCare's revenue decreased by 11.6 percent. On a currency comparable basis, the decrease amounted to 7.8 percent. A major part of the film revenue decline of the Imaging segment is attributable to the weak performance in the emerging markets. In the segment's digital radiography business (consisting of Computed Radiography, Direct Radiography and the hardcopy business), the DR product range continued its strong growth.

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (HEY) have agreed a five year deal with Nervecentre to deliver their e-Observations Decision Support System trust-wide. The solution, the deployment of which has been speeded up through an award from the £100m Nursing Technology Fund, will enable the trust to reduce mortality, improve patient safety and reduce harm.