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RSS patientsHP and Cisco Help St. Olavs Hospital Achieve "All Over IP, IP All Over"
White Paper The Hospital wanted converged network to facilitate better mobility, increased flexibility, and enhanced security that would lead to new treatment methods, better quality of care, and improved services to the hospital's patients and to the public. [11 Jul 2008]
Photos: A peek at the future of telemedicine
Photo Pictured above is a broadband-based telemedicine tech which could help doctors remotely monitor patients recovering from injury by ensuring their rehabilitation is on track. Patients are asked to touch only the green balls - which then pop... [10 Jul 2008]
Medical Office Increases Productivity with New Communications System
White Paper Sunita Jayakar's physician practice implemented a Cisco phone system and reduced time required for appointment reminder calls from four hours to 15 minutes per day; reduced time spent initiating phone calls and responding to messages; and achieved... [10 Jul 2008]
Hospitals roll out RFID
News Hospitals across England are keeping track of patients and equipment using RFID tagging. More than 50 hospitals are using smart wireless or barcoded wristbands and tags to give them an instant snapshot of the location of medicines, patients and... [09 Jul 2008]
Photos: 60 years of NHS tech
Photo This is one of the trolley phones introduced in 1954 which allowed patients to call home from their bed. From 1984 the pager technology was also used for patients waiting for transplants to alert them when an organ became available for them. [09 Jul 2008]
Cyberonics Develops a Pocket PC-Based Solution to Reduce Costs and Administration Complexity
White Paper While the NCP System represents a great advance for epilepsy patients and for the clinicians treating them, the programming system had its drawbacks. Cyberonics worked with Microsoft Solution Provider ESX Engineering to create a Windows Powered... [03 Jul 2008]
With IBM WebSphere Application Server, Sysinct Creates Dynamic Deployment Environment
White Paper To help patients and physicians manage the complex issues of today’s healthcare business, Florida Hospital needed a scalable solution to help it streamline payment management. Instead of waiting for an invoice sent through the mail, patients needed... [03 Jul 2008]
Case Study - IBM & Ethicon LTD.: Mobile Service Into the Operating Room
White Paper Daily restocking of surgical supplies is critical to these institutions and the lives of their patients. A subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, surgical supply provider Ethicon Limited teamed with IBM to bring mobile service to 15 of the U.K.s largest... [03 Jul 2008]
Identity Management Services: Efficient Access to Protected Health Information
White Paper As a result, it is essential for healthcare providers to protect the privacy of their patients and the integrity of their medical records. Protecting medical records, specifically patient health information, has become a key priority for today's... [03 Jul 2008]
The Wildlife Center of Virginia Uses Technology to Care for Itself and Patients
White Paper Wildlife Center of Virginia (WCV) is nation's leading wildlife hospital. WCV leaders realized that to keep the organization at the forefront of its field and at the same time expand its education efforts, technology solutions were needed. [03 Jul 2008]
3G Network Oriented Mobile Agents for Intelligent Diabetes Management: A Conceptual Model
White Paper With the development of technologies in wireless communication especially the third generation (3G) mobile network, Internet, software agent, it is possible now for hospitals to provide a seamless or ubiquitous virtual care environment for... [03 Jul 2008]
World's Largest Ambulance Service Relies on Broadbeam Seamless Network Switching for Real-Time Emergency Response
White Paper London Ambulance Service is the largest ambulance service in the world, caring for more than one and a half million patients every year. A solution was needed that would enable London Ambulance to simultaneously switch between multiple wireless... [03 Jul 2008]
3Com Solutions for Healthcare Providers: Improving Care, Controlling Costs
White Paper Complicating matters, providers must ensure the confidentiality of their patients' records, yet patients themselves are demanding more access to medical information and their files. Today, healthcare providers are under great pressure from all... [03 Jul 2008]
Mobile Health Care Solution 'Caremore' Benefits Nurses and Patients in the Netherlands
White Paper Patients now benefit from a higher level of health care and don't need to repeat their medical history each time a new nurse arrives for a visit. Sensire offers remote home health care visits, nursing home visits, youth health care, maternity care... [03 Jul 2008]
Parkway Group Puts Critical SAP Healthcare System in Place
White Paper Rising costs and changing cost-structures, multiple hardware systems, the need to manage large numbers of patients and employees, along with special projects, disparate locations and materials sourcing place heavy demands on administrators and... [03 Jul 2008]
