Healthcare Technology IT, Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Organisations struggling to improve cyber security defences, should take note of the recommendations proposed by a select committee report into last year's WannaCry ransomware epidemic. This is according to Peter Groucutt, managing director of Databarracks.

Britain's healthcare sector is a highly complex market, with increasing pressures from an ageing population, higher rates of obesity and its related diseases, as well as never-ending budget constraints.

By Paul Swaddle, CEO of Pocket App.

The NHS recently announced a brand new mobile App that is aiming to reduce the wait time that patients will have from booking an appointment to seeing a doctor.

Inspiration Healthcare Group, a global supplier of medical technology for critical care, operating theatre and home healthcare applications, is adopting software from Ideagen to enhance regulatory compliance and key operational processes.

Ideagen, developer of healthcare software designed to modernise clinical workflows and analysis, has launched an enhanced version of its PatientFirst product following an overhaul of emergency care management in England.

Datalogic, a global leader in automatic data capture and industrial automation markets, has launched the Memor X3 HC mobile computer.

With many companies and organisations still feeling the fallout of the recent WannaCry cyber-attack, IT automation specialist PowerON, has launched a number of free software solutions for companies and IT managers that were affected or are concerned by the attack.

Last Friday morning, a ransomware attack started spreading across the globe, infecting tens of thousands of computers. Those affected included over 40 health service trusts and FedEx's offices in the UK, a telecom in Spain, and the Russian Interior Ministry.

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has achieved a major financial transaction milestone as part of the NHS drive to use GS1 standards to allow every NHS hospital in England to save an average of £3 million annually through improved patient safety, greater regulatory compliance and widespread operational efficiencies.

Continued digitisation of documentation and mobile workforces. But also continued strong growth for Push to Talk in areas such as security, crisis, logistics and healthcare. GroupTalks CEO Magnus Hedberg writes about what he believes are the strongest trends in IT and digital communications in 2017.