Coming soon…health advice on digital TV
By next Christmas, many viewers with digital televisions will be able to access hangover cures and other healthy advice from the NHS on their screens between re-runs of the Great Escape and seasonal episodes of Only Fools and Horses. The Department of Health announced today that MMTV Ltd, a company specialising in interactive TV […]
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£27m for Digital Cameras to Track Diabetic Retinopathy
A total of £27m has been allocated to buy digital eye screening cameras for use in tracking retinopathy in people who have diabetes. Announcing the funding, health minister, David Lammy, said the cameras could help 1000 people a year by triggering preventive action against visual impairments, including blindness. Digital retinopathy cameras provide precise digital images […]
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Siemens to Help Build Digital Hospital
Siemens Corporation is to work with the US HealthSouth Corporation to create a groundbreaking totally integrated, all-digital and completely automated hospital. Technology will be used in every part of the new hospital to improve quality and save costs. Every patient treated in the new hospital will wear a "wellness monitor" to monitor their vital signs […]
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Gates Says NHS Must Deliver in Digital Age
It’s not every day that you get to see the richest man in the world, and the gawp factor must have accounted for a good number of the 150-odd NHS chief executives and directors that attended last week’s Microsoft-sponsored Department of Health IT conference. But the man from Redmond offered them little in way of […]
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