The New Zealand government has launched a Health White Paper outlining New Zealand’s successes in primary healthcare and integrating care delivery across the whole continuum of care. The White Paper provides evidence that New Zealand’s attainment of objectively measurable clinical excellence in its healthcare system arises from new IT-enabled approaches to the delivery of healthcare, which are seen as models for larger European countries.

European healthcare systems are struggling to prepare for the future. As budgetary pressures take hold, finding efficiencies has become central to the preservation of high quality care. This,combined with ageing populations suffering from chronic conditions and less people providing tax revenues on which healthcare funding depends,requires urgent and positive action....

From health reform and skyrocketing costs to consumer expectations and technology advances, healthcare in Canada is undergoing transformation. The entire health continuum — providers, governments, public health organizations, agencies, patients and others — is feeling the impact and looking for new solutions.

Accenture has drawn on our global healthcare experience and work with health organizations across Canada to develop this list of healthcare game changers. These are technology-driven, information-powered trends, which include organizational and structural reinvention, new options for providers and care delivery and innovative consumer empowerment tools. While each is unique, together they will contribute to a new model of Insight Driven Health for Canada...

GE Vice President and GE Healthcare Chief Technology Officer Mike Harsh sets out how technology has the ability to change the face of healthcare at The Economist’s inaugural “Technology Frontiers” conference.

The London-based conference provided a platform for business leaders from across the globe to appreciate how technology will transform the world around us. Reviewing some of the principal innovations of the past decades, Harsh explained how medical technology has experienced explosive growth on a global scale over the past fifty years.....

Nations around the world are making significant efforts to adopt healthcare information technology as a path toward “connected health.” The goals are straightforward enough – higher quality, more accessible and cost-effective healthcare – but the path there is intricate and varied. Accenture has released a comprehensive new report, Connected Health: The Drive to Integrated Healthcare Delivery, which takes an in-depth look at the progress toward connected health in eight countries.The study identifies the key dynamics, challenges and lessons guiding each country along its unique journey to more integrated healthcare delivery.

Accenture’s connected health study combines deep research – including interviews with more than 160 healthcare leaders, a survey of more than 3,700 doctors and clinicians, case studies, literature reviews and more – and delivers a broad analysis of how health systems in these ...

As health organizations transform how they serve their patients and partners, cloud computing provides a way to reduce costs, simplify management, and improve services in a safe and secure manner. As they seek ways to optimize their technology foundation to help control costs and improve access to information, tools, and resources, health and life science organizations, both public and private, are exploring the promise of cloud computing services.

Combining security and reliability with a flexible range of deployment options, cloud computing offers benefits that can make it a compelling choice for your organization. Cloud services available to health and life science organizations today extend well beyond email and communications, meetings and collaboration....

Advocate Health Care is the largest healthcare provider in Illinois. With employees in multiple locations, Advocate wanted to improve its messaging technology to make sure that clinicians and employees could communicate clearly, quickly, and accurately. It decided to unplug its Sun iPlanet email servers and give nearly 29,000 employees subscriptions to Microsoft Exchange Online, a cloudbased email service that is part of Microsoft Online Services.

Advocate gained instant access to the latest email software and a foundation on which it can add technologies that contribute to better patient care. Plus, it avoided spending U.S.$4 million on a new email infrastructure. By halving email management work, the IT staff has more time to spend rolling out additional communications technologies. With email running.....

“Innovative healthcare IT model boosts cost predictability, speed to value, security, availability, and business continuity at South Jersey Healthcare, USA.South Jersey Healthcare (SJH), in Vineland, New Jersey, USA needed a solution that would help it improve the delivery of care, while maintaining a cost model that would not require extensive capital expenditures.

The 421-bed, nonprofit healthcare system migrated its healthcare IT infrastructure to a cloud-based model. in which it accesses healthcare IT solutions from “the cloud” – remotely hosted at Siemens at the Healthcare Computing Center in Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA. Cost control, speed, security, availability, continuity. The decision to adopt the cloud-based model was based on the health system’s requirements for cost predictability; speed to value; and medical-grade security, availability, and business continuity...

Motorola Solutions Asia Pacific today announced that it will soon bring to market a number of local mobile healthcare solutions together with its partners, as a result of its collaboration with the Infocomm Development
Authority of Singapore (IDA), under the Healthcare Innovation Program started last April.

Working closely with partners enrolled under this incubation programme to drive healthcare mobility applications development expertise in homegrown enterprises, these solutions include routing and scheduling mobile dispatch solutions, as well as home health monitoring systems which connect devices to medical devices for vitalsigns monitoring via Bluetooth.The Healthcare Innovation Program has seen over 15 local.....