A project to help connect electronic health record (EHR) systems across Europe has received €8 million funding from the European Commission.
The i2X project – which stands for Intelligent Implementation of the European Electronic Health…
Digital technology is prevalent in hospitals, according to Bernke Papenburg, program manager of Robotics at Rijnstate Hospital, a 700-bed teaching facility in the eastern Netherlands. Papenburg noted that very few procedures or care performed in…
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Researchers at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust in Wirral are using AI to enhance the precision of radiotherapy for prostate cancer.
The PIVOTALboost study, which ran from 2018, recently closed after surveying data…
We aimed to identify and characterise behavioural profiles in patients at high risk of SCD, by using deep representation learning of day-to-day behavioural recordings. We present a pipeline that employed unsupervised clustering on low-dimensional…
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Two out of five HIMSS members live outside the United States now. This represents tremendous growth in the international reach of HIMSS, which is the subject of this interview with President and CEO Hal…
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Medication Errors can happen at the point of prescribing, transcribing from one system to the other, or administration, when the wrong patient is given either the wrong drug or wrong dose. Medication administration errors…
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WiFi and communications provider Spark TSL is acquiring the Dutch company Sentean Group, and will bring its Fusion Bedside platform for clinical and patient apps to the UK healthcare market. The acquisition means that…
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Digitalisation in healthcare holds the promise of optimising processes and expanding access to care. In some European countries such as Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, Poland and Hungary, patients can access national portals that contain their prescriptions,…
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Background: To cope with the rising number of patients with trauma in an already constrained Dutch health care system, Direct Discharge (DD) has been introduced in over 25 hospitals in the Netherlands since 2019….
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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is working with the University of East Anglia and the University of Exeter to pioneer a support programme for family carers of people living with dementia in the…
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