Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt launches groundbreaking new measures to improve patient safety in the National Health Service 

LONDON-Monday, February 26th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit kicked off with an important announcement about the progress being made to save lives in hospital settings. Nearly 4,600 hospitals in 44 countries have committed to adopting patient safety processes that are proven to eliminate preventable deaths in hospitals.

The Patient Safety Movement Foundation has taken on an inspiring and ambitious goal of reducing preventable patient deaths in hospitals to ZERO by 2020. The annual Summit in central London plays a major role in taking on that challenge with the participation of 300 global leaders, medical experts, medical technology CEOs, and patient advocates.

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 Medical device companies pledge to share data that can save the lives of patients

 

LONDON-Thursday, February 22nd 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The medical technology field spans a multi-billion dollar market, and corporate competitiveness has long been viewed as the key to staying ahead. But Joe Kiani, Chairman, and CEO of the medical technology company, Masimo, is bringing fierce competitors together for the sake of patient safety.

As a strong advocate for patient safety, Kiani founded the Patient Safety Movement Foundation to stem the needless deaths that occur in hospitals every day through preventable medical error. The goal is zero preventable deaths by 2020.

One of the ways to reach such an aggressive goal, says Kiani, is a concept called “interoperability” and he wants to use open data to create a “Patient Data Super Highway” to get to there.

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CARDINALITY is selected as a ’10 to Watch’ company by industry analyst firm Stratecast | Frost & Sullivan.

GUILDFORD, England-Sunday, February 25th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- In their new report, “Digital Transformation Means New Tools for New Business” —part of the Global Operations, Orchestration, Data Analytics, and Monetisation (ODAM) stream—Stratecast recognises CARDINALITY for their new approach towards processing big data to deliver applications such as Customer Experience, Operational Intelligence, Network Analytics, Churn Management and Marketing Intelligence.

Stratecast identified that the CARDINALITY Perception Platform brings large amounts of data from multiple CSP sources together in order to address a growing group of data analysis needs from different operational work teams and the wider business. It also does this at ingestion rates and storage levels previously thought not practical.

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Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates-Sunday, February 25th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]

In connection with the UAE’s Innovation Month, the American University of Ras Al Khaimah’s Dr. Sharon Waller, PhD., CED provided two educational sessions to enlighten, support, and encourage local teachers of determined students. 

The workshop was divided into morning and afternoon sessions. The morning session began with a welcoming speech from Provost Prof. Stephen Whilhite of AURAK expressing the importance of education and the difference it has made in his life. Immediately after him, Dr. Sharon launched into “Teaching the ‘Determined Ones’ and Struggling Learners,” loaded full of strategies such as: chunking, highlighting, graphic organizers, multiple modalities, and the use of manipulatives; all techniques teachers could instantly implement in their classrooms to help struggling students with learning disabilities.

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