IBM Teams up with Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center to Reduce New HIV Infections to Zero
IBM is collaborating with the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre (TRCARC) to strengthen HIV prevention effort and to make Bangkok the world’s first city to achieve Zero New HIV Infections by 2015. As part of this initiative, IBM Business Analytics is being applied to enable the Centre to design more effective intervention strategies and outreach actions to help end the spread of HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Hospitals in Russia’s Regions Turn to IBM to Transform Healthcare
IBM announced that several hospitals and clinics from Russia’s rapidly evolving regions outside of Moscow and St Petersburg are partnering with IBM to modernize infrastructure and improve patient care. A number of healthcare providers such as the Hospital of Murom Railway Station, the Clinic of Novosibirsk Institute of Blood Circulation Pathology in Siberia and the Emergency Hospital of Petrozavodsk have turned to IBM to provide new information management systems giving doctors and medical staff rapid access to medical data and reducing waiting time for patients.
Groundbreaking Research Collaboration Creates a New Economic Cornerstone for Canada
The Governments of Canada and Ontario, with IBM and a consortium of seven universities led by the University of Toronto and Western University today announced they are collaborating to establish a new Ontario-based $210 million dollar research and development initiative that will create 145 new highly skilled jobs in Ontario and a new economic cornerstone for the country.
Thoughts, comments, news, and reflections about healthcare IT from Microsoft's worldwide health senior director Bill Crounse, MD, on how information technology can improve healthcare delivery and services around the world.
