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Early Mobilisation of Critically Ill Patients:
In our previous article, we discussed the rationale for early mobilisation and described general screening guidelines and safety issues when considering this therapy (Korupolu et al. 2009). In this second of three articles, we focus on the feasibility and benefits of early mobility, describing how ICUs use available personnel and equipment to facilitate...
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Norway
It has been nearly ten years since GPs in Northern Norway fi rst integrated telemedicine, making it possible to send referrals and receive discharge summaries electronically. Over the next three years this will be expanded with nursing and care services in all municipalities located in the northern region communicating electronically with GPs and health...
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Portugal
The Portuguese General Directorate of Health has created the 'Health 2.0: Quality and Innovation in the National Health Service' project aimed at identifying the main requirements in health innovation.The project is in the form of an online survey that seeks to identify strategic priorities for innovation in the health sector.The survey is open...
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SCM Microsystems Wins Further Orders For Overall 10,000 German ehealth Terminals
SCM Microsystems, a leading provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange recently announced that it has received its first orders for 10,000 e-health terminals to support the relaunch of the electronic health card programme in Germany. SCM has begun shipping both its e-health200 desktop and e-health 500 mobile...
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CSC Enters into Agreement to Acquire iSOFT’s Global Operations
In April, CSC announced it has signed an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity of iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world's largest providers of advanced healthcare IT solutions, by way of a court-approved scheme of arrangement. The acquisition will complement and strengthen CSC's market-leading software products and healthcare integration...
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Philips Installs FlexMove Option for Hybrid OR
Philips Healthcare has announced the opening of the world's first hybrid OR with new FlexMove – a ceiling-mounted option for the Allura Xper x-ray system, designed to optimise workflow in hybrid ORs – at the University Hospital Zürich (UniversitätsSpital Zürich, USZ), Switzerland. A hybrid OR is the integration of a surgical operating room with...
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World Health Partners: Using Technology Advances to Deliver Health Services on Scale to Rural Clients Anywhere
A crucial challenge facing the development sector is the inability of communities living in rural and hinterland areas, which often account for 75 percent of the population in developing countries, to access vital health and reproductive health services. For over 60 years, the focus was on strengthening the public sector for this responsibility....
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The Clinical Workstation: a GPS for the Medical User
Benefits for the Healthcare User Most hospital systems have traditionally been "silo-based", expensive to maintain and infl exible. In contrast, all patient and hospital related information and processes are streamlined and integrated into one single clinical holistic system improving the quality of data. The focus of our approach was: Uniformity...
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Covidien's New Alarm Management System (AMS) for the Nellcor "OxiMax"
N-600x™ pulse oximeter identifies and alerts staff to ongoing developments, such as periods of desaturation and potentially worrisome patterns. AMS includes the OxiMax SPD™ alert, which detects desaturation patterns indicative of repetitive reductions in airflow, even if the patient hasn't crossed the SpO2 threshold. AMS also includes SatSeconds™ alarm...
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We all Know Endotracheal Tubes Leak
A recent study by The New England Journal of Medicine found pneumonia to be the second most common cause of rehospitalisation within 30 days after surgery.1 It's this kind of real-world need that drives our search for relevant innovations—innovations like the Mallinckrodt™ TaperGuard™ endotracheal tube, shown to reduce microaspiration an average of...
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