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NHS Grampian Goes Wireless Posted: 11 May 2009 09:56 AM PDT NHS Grampian has selected UK-based Carillion IT Services to provide a new wireless infrastructure. The wireless network, Carillion says, is in partnership with NHS Grampian at its Foresterhill campus in Aberdeen. Under the agreement, Carillion claims it will install what is currently Cisco’s largest Wireless Local Area Network deployment in the healthcare market for its powerful 1142 Access Point. The wireless network will support the three Aberdeen Hospitals and will integrate with NHS’s security and authentication protocols, the company says. According to Carillion, the Scottish organization plans on using its network for VoIP and implementing RFID to monitor medical equipment in the future. The NHS Grampian campus includes Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and Aberdeen Maternity Hospital. NHS Grampian is responsible for delivering the healthcare of nearly half a million people, spread over 3000 square miles, in urban and rural communities in this region of Scotland.

GE Launches $6 Billion HIT Program Posted: 11 May 2009 09:49 AM PDT GE Healthcare says it has committed $6 billion as part of a new health initiative. In addition to providing $3 billion over the next six years for healthcare innovation to deliver better care to more people at a lower cost, the company says its Healthymagination program will include $2 billion of financing and $1 billion of technology. According to the Barrington, Ill.-based healthcare IT company, which is part of GE, under Healthymagination, by 2015 it will: Invest $3 billion in R&D to launch at least 100 innovations that lower cost, increase access and improve quality by 15 percent.   Work with partners to focus innovations on accelerating HIT, target high-tech products to more affordable price points, broaden access to the underserved and support CDHC.   Create new wellness and healthy worksite programs while keeping cost increases below the rate of inflation. Additionally, in order to make HIT faster and more efficient, the company says it will seek to increase the use and capability of EMR technology and other HIT.

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