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Abnormal results on outpatient imaging tests sometimes may not receive timely follow-up even when clinicians receive and read results in an advanced, integrated electronic medical record system, according to a report in the September 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. “Communication breakdown is consistently identified as a preventable factor in [...] Medical Park Hospital Group, the largest hospital group in Turkey, has selected NovaRad’s NovaRIS and NovaPACS combined radiology system to replace its existing RIS and PACS. The contract was facilitated by Akfa Medikal Teknoloji, NovaRad’s distributor in Turkey. The hospital group comprises 13 hospitals throughout Turkey. The five-year contract also includes the installation of NovaRIS and [...] Professor Chad Mirkin, director of Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology, has been awarded the 2009 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for innovations that have the potential to transform the future of medical diagnostics and patient point-of-care and to ignite change across many industries from semi-conductors to healthcare. Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern, [...] BinSina Pharmacy, a leading retail pharmacy chain, and Acorn Research FZ LLC, an innovative healthcare research and consultancy group, have joined hands to launch a nationwide one-of-a-kind research tool that will enable all healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to access real time market, customer and competitive intelligence. The partnership means the two will use award winning, intelligence-based [...] A new report predicts that the healthcare sector in the Gulf will grow by 9% per year and will be worth up to $55bn by 2020. The rise is to fueled by a growing and ageing population and a rise in chronic non-communicable ‘lifestyle’ diseases, said Tommy Trask, executive director and head of Equity Research [...] |
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