Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh (WWL) NHS Foundation Trust turned to healthcare digital signage specialist Saturn to design and deploy a screen network across three sites within an ambitious two week window.

Software developed by computer scientists could help to quickly and accurately locate missing people, rapidly identify those suffering from malnutrition and effectively point people towards safe zones simply by checking their phones.

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has selected System C to supply and implement its Medway patient administration and electronic patient record (PAS/EPR) system across the Trust.

For the first time in the Netherlands, the treatment of a patient with a heart rhythm disorder can be followed via social media. Sharing the experience of a real patient is part of a unique initiative organized by the Catharina Hospital (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and Philips.

18 – 20 September 2012, London, UK.
VPH 2012 will be an international conference on computational biomedicine, with a clear focus on the integrative aspects of VPH. Special attention will be given to the ‘Digital Patient’ as well as ‘health forecasts’. VPH 2012 aims at reaching outside of the VPH community to other equally important communities: systems biology and genomics.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced the launch of MyAsthma, the UK’s first, free personalised health application (app) designed to help people over the age of 12 take greater control of their asthma.

A new project is underway at Leopardstown Hospital which will help nurses and therapists to keep older people independent for longer. The MAXIMS clinical PAS has already proved a major success among nurses looking after the south Dublin hospital’s 170 plus residents

NHS Oldham and Oldham Council are working in partnership with leading healthcare company Tunstall, providing patients with advanced telehealth solutions that will support them in the management of their long-term conditions.

Two European funding programmes opening in the first months of 2012 will support the implementation of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.