According to the BBC, a recent report has found that Hospitals in the UK could help prevent thousands of deaths a year. The report states that hospitals with better use of Information Technology see a fall in deaths of emergency patients over the year. Univerity Hospital Birmingham have a system in place which the trust say has contributed to the 17% fall in deaths among these emergency patients. The system includes a reminder system...

The mobile healthcare market will approach $10 billion in the next 5 years, according to a report from global management consulting firm Arthur D. Little. As the current healthcare delivery system takes on older patients, becomes increasingly expensive, and is marred by a significant shortage of medical staff, advances in mobile technology for healthcare, which reduces costs and closes the geographic gap in care between patients and...

It’s been a longstanding concern for hospital trusts that the condition of acutely ill patients can sometimes deteriorate without prior warning. Indeed for some time now, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has been advocating ‘track and trigger’ systems aimed at early detection and response in such cases. Alas, most strategies aimed at achieving this have met with limited success. Wireless...