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BLOOMINGTON, Minn., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Acuo Technologies®, the world leader in high-performance software and services for clinical content management and data migration, announced today it has been selected as the preferred supplier to work with technology partner and prime contractor Philips in the United Kingdom to implement a multi-site federated vendor neutral archive, featuring fully-distributed data management with centralized administration, to be shared across...
CHICAGO, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This month Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago (NHS) in partnership with Lowe's completed two beautification projects in one of NHS' targeted neighborhoods, Auburn Gresham. NHS of Chicago was awarded a $100,000 grant from Lowe's this year to complete the two projects in the neighborhood. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110714/DC35474LOGO) The first project was completed on the 7800 Block of South Aberdeen in the City...
Data briefing: A productivity challenge too far? Asking the NHS to find nearly £50 billion in efficiency savings would be "frankly undoable" says John Appleby, Chief Economist at the King's Fund, in an article published on bmj.com today. The NHS is under pressure to achieve £20bn of efficiency savings by 2015, but senior government figures have warned that total savings of £50bn may need to be found by 2019-20. Appleby warns that the NHS could be "setting itself up for failure" by...
LONDON, June 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Demand for universal blood type O Negative expected to be higher than donations being made during the games New statistics from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) announced yesterday reveal a gap between demand and supply of blood type O Rh Negative (O Negative) during national celebrations and underline an urgent need for O Negative donors to come forward ahead of the Olympics next month....
CHICAGO, June 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Saturday, June 2 more than 600 corporate volunteers, community leaders, and neighborhood residents participated in Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago's 25th Annual NeighborWorks® Day. The day included curb appeal activities and resource fairs in seven of NHS' targeted communities, including Auburn Gresham, Back of the Yards, Chicago Lawn, North Lawndale, Roseland, West Humboldt, and Elgin. For the projects, volunteers...
LONDON, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- National Blood Week Kicks Off 11th - 17th June 2012 National blood stocks have fallen by 7% over the jubilee weekend according to latest figures from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) which today launches its annual awareness campaign, National Blood Week, to urge the public to donate blood. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/56548-nhs-blood-transplant...
LONDON, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Public urged to give blood ahead of major events this summer to boost blood stocks for 2012 Eight celebrities, each representing one of the major blood groups, are supporting NHS Blood and Transplant's [http://www.blood.co.uk ] campaign to increase blood stocks this summer. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click:...
LONDON, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - Specialist buildings controls systems integrator brought in to provide NHS Wirral - St Catherine's Hospital GBPmulti-million redevelopment with fully certified IT Structured Cabling System and LAN infrastructure to support networked CCTV security solution - Dimension Data Advanced Infrastructure (DDAI), [http://www.dimensiondata.com/rgn/uk/microsites/ddai/Pages/Home.aspx ] a...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MobileIron, the leader in security and management for mobile apps, data, and devices, today announced that, in less than 60 days, it has added 15 new NHS organisations to its growing list of healthcare clients. Supporting Mobile IT across the full NHS ecosystem of hospitals, primary care trusts, surgeries and training establishments, MobileIron now includes organisations such as Oxford Health Informatics Services and Somerset...
An evaluation of the national clean your hands campaign shows for the first time that an effective hand-hygiene campaign, undertaken in the context of a high profile political drive, can successfully reduce some healthcare associated infections, according to a new study published in tomorrow's BMJ. The national clean your hands campaign was rolled out to all 187 NHS Trusts from January 2005 with instructions to provide bed-side alcohol handrub (AHR), posters encouraging healthcare workers...
