Corporate News

As part of the UK contingent, OBS Medical will showcasing Visensia – The Safety Index, software for the early detection of patient deterioration, within the Association of British Healthcare Industries (ABHI) – UK Pavilion.

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital has won the 2015 Most Wired Innovator award from the American Hospital Association. The hospital’s development and implementation of the Intelligent Care System, a fully integrated suite of technologies that provide patient care and safety, contributed to the win. The system includes Visensia – Early Detection Monitoring System, which interprets vital sign data from electronic health records and helps earlier identify signs of change in a patient’s condition.

Over the last eight years, pressure has only increased on the NHS. With time out of the office increasingly scarce, the Patient Safety Congress remains one of the key events in the diaries of over 1000 professionals striving to improve safety and quality in their organisation.

The Government has produced a set of policies which herald the most far reaching changes within the NHS since its inception in 1948. The White Paper published on July 12 2010 began to give some detail about the new landscape but left many areas unclear with a strong implication that the government expects people, not government to create ‘Big Society’.