iSOFT, a CSC company, and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust are to jointly explore using new software to extract and anonymise clinical information for research and clinical trials, in one of the first projects of its type in the UK.

18 – 20 September 2012, London, UK.
VPH2012 will be an international conference on computational biomedicine, with focus on the integrative aspects of VPH. VPH2012 aims at reaching outside of the VPH community to other relevant communities including systems biology.

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announces its new ‘Pocket Health’ app, developed in collaboration with the NHS, to provide easy access for the UK public to a wealth of information from the NHS Choices website, which has over nine million visitors a month.

An increasing number of everyday devices such as car keys, smart phones and even medical implants need protection from hackers. The encryption method PRESENT is the smallest cipher for such cost and energy constrained applications

The Siemens Healthcare Sector has maintained its leading position in the field of medical technology despite a tough business environment. “In past years, we’ve expanded our product portfolio and even more consistently aligned it to customer needs,” said Hermann Requardt, CEO of the Healthcare Sector, at the Siemens Healthcare Capital Market Day in London.

Medway Community Healthcare, a community interest company, is the first to implement the newly launched community healthcare system, Advanced Community, from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced).

In the past few years, researchers at the University of Helsinki have made several breakthroughs in discovering how the brain of preterm babies work, in developing treatments to protect the brain, and in developing research methods suitable for hospital use.