Verizon brings healthcare comms

Verizon Business is set to provide the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with a comprehensive set of voice, data, collaboration and professional services under a new agreement through the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System contract, states TMCnet.

The company, under the $245-million deal, will provide HHS with voice and data services, dedicated voicemail systems, and audio, video and Web conferencing.

HHS is the US government's main department for protecting the health of all US citizens and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

The efficiency and flexibility of digitised healthcare is beginning to take effect throughout Europe as the industry gets poised to continue its transformation to technology, according to Hospital IT Europe.

Although information systems are yet to be fully utilised by the healthcare industry, new analysis from Frost & Sullivan's mobile and wireless healthcare technologies report have discovered that the European market in 2008 was $1.479 million, with the estimate for 2015 at $6.791 million.

The rapid increase owes a lot to the wide range of wireless applications and solutions being introduced to the market coupled with the evolution of infrastructure technology, the combination proving too big an opportunity for healthcare administrators to miss.

Healthcare Solutions (HCS) has won a Qatar Ministry of Health contract for the supply, installation, training and support of an HL7 (health level 7) interface engine, says TradeArabia.

The HL7 interface engine will be used to integrate the healthcare information system, PACS and blood analysers, at the Medical Commission facility. HL7 interface engines involve software that works as a go-between for different systems.

HCS will deliver this solution using the InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration and development platform from InterSystems.