IBM opens health analytics centre
IBM has unveiled a Health Analytics Solution Centre, part of a network of global centres addressing the growing demand for advanced analytics needed to help hospitals and medical staff improve decision-making and provide higher quality care, reports Reuters.
The centre will be hosted in the IBM Global Solution Centre in Dallas and will employ more than 100 health analytics experts, technical architects and specialists, with access to hundreds more health industry experts from across IBM, including experts from IBM's business analytics and optimisation consulting organisation and IBM Research.
It is the first centre of its kind to address the need for advanced analytics across the healthcare industry, taking advantage of increased computing power to collect and analyse data streaming in from sensors, patient monitoring systems, medical instruments and handheld devices as well as the volumes of data generated by hospitals every hour.
E-health record guidelines published
The UK Department of Health has released details of standards that suppliers must meet for an installation of the electronic patient records system, Lorenzo, to be considered successful, states Computing.co.uk.
The Department of Health says that to be considered a successful implementation, all elements of the records system must exist, be working robustly, and be deployed at scale in NHS trusts by the end of November. Details are published on the department's Web site.
At trust and strategic health authority level, the NHS has agreed the detail of how these criteria will be assessed.
T-Systems continues healthcare investment
T-Systems is focusing on networked healthcare, says Wireless Week. The Deutsche Telekom subsidiary is positioning itself in the growing healthcare market and has acquired a stake in Portavita.
Portavita is a provider in the Netherlands of disease management systems for integrated care of chronic patients.
Via T-Venture T-Systems is also taking over shares in the Dutch software developer MGRID, a partner company of Portavita that specialises in developing software for medical database applications.
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