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OxygenCare expands Digital Healthcare offering with Medanets

OxygenCare is delighted to announce the introduction of the Medanets integrated Point of Care Nursing app to its ever-expanding Digital Healthcare solutions portfolio. The collaboration brings together two companies with a shared vision for improving patient care through innovative digital healthcare solutions.

Stephen Nicholson, Digital Health Manager, OxygenCare, explains: “Medanets simplifies nursing routines, supports decision making, complements and integrates with EHR systems, and releases time to care for patients.’ The CE and MDR certified app was developed in collaboration with healthcare professionals.

OxygenCare is a multi-award-winning, family-owned business with over 50 years supporting healthcare throughout the island of Ireland.

“Their dedicated digital health team and prior experience in delivering complex ICU and anaesthesia systems make them an deal partner for us,” says Medanets CEO Juha-Matti Ranta. “On top of that, their deep market knowledge and the impression made by their team further solidified our confidence in this partnership. It seems we are a natural fit in both values and working style.”

For over 30 years, OxygenCare has been transforming digital healthcare through clinical systems and working with innovative products and solutions throughout Ireland. The Medanets integrated nursing app supports point-of-care documentation and immediate access to key patient data, making it a natural fit with OxygenCare’s digital portfolio.

Combining OxygenCare’s connectivity solutions with Medanets’ mobile solutions can provide significant added value both to organisations already using an electronic health record (EHR) and to hospitals beginning their digital journey.

“We can offer healthcare providers a fast-track way to modernise operations, even in settings where an EHR is not yet in place. For instance, Medanets supports “lightweight IT” approaches such as sending PDFs directly to a document archive—a direct impactful step forward in digital empowerment,” Ranta explains.

Maurice Moran, Managing Director of OxygenCare, adds: “This Medanets offering complements our portfolio, and we see strong market potential. Together, we are currently conducting exploratory efforts in the market to identify opportunities and tailor our approach to local needs. Through this new partnership, all care phases can be managed digitally through a single provider. This partnership marks a promising step toward improving healthcare outcomes in Ireland and underscores the strength of collaboration in driving innovation forward.”

What Is Jenkins in CI/CD – Everything You Need To Know

Jenkins is a well-known and effective open-source automation server that assists businesses in automating the software delivery process. Its main use is to implement continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, but it can do much more. In this guide, we’ll overview what is Jenkins, its features, and how to install it. Let’s get started!

What Is Jenkins?

 

  • Jenkins is an automation server that is available as open source, helping organizations automate software delivery. It can be used to implement a continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipeline.

 

  • Jenkins is implemented in Java and can be used to monitor executions of repetitive tasks, like building a software project or  running the jobs by cron.

 

  • Jenkins can be installed on-premises or used as a cloud-based solution. In addition, there are many plugins available that extend the functionality of Jenkins.

 

What Is The CICD Pipeline In Jenkins?

 

  • A CICD pipeline is a process that automates the tasks involved in the software development lifecycle, from development, testing the software for any flaws or bugs, to deployment and monitoring the same after the release happens. Jenkins is a well known open-source tool that helps teams automate this process. Jenkins has an ability to run builds in parallel on multiple nodes, which can dramatically speed up the process. 

 

  • Additionally, Jenkins can be configured to automatically trigger builds when changes are made to the codebase, which makes it easy to maintain the software and keeping it up-to-date. While many other tools provide similar functionality, Jenkins is a widely used tool that helps teams deliver software quickly and reliably.

 

Why Use Jenkins?

There are many aspects why you would want to use Jenkins. A few key reasons include:

 

1. It is open-source, so it is free to use.

 

2. It is highly configurable and extensible, with hundreds of plugins available.

 

3. It has excellent documentation.

 

4. It integrates well with other tools and systems.

 

5. Ease of setting it up on any platform and use. 

 

What Is The Jenkins Core Terminology?

In Jenkins, a “job” is a group of one or more build steps executed in order, each step potentially generating new artifacts. Jobs can be chained together in a linear sequence or organized into arbitrarily complex workflows. A given job will generally produce the same output every time it is run, although some jobs are configured to “poll SCM”, which means they will run periodically and check for changes in source control.

 

  • Artifacts are the files generated by a building job. Other jobs can be used in downstream pipelines or archived for later retrieval.

 

  • A “build” is a specific instance of a job running to completion. The term can also refer to the process of running a job, as in “trigger a build”.

 

  • “SCM” stands for “source control management”. Jenkins can poll various SCM systems for changes and trigger builds automatically when changes are detected.

 

  • A “node” is a machine that Jenkins can deploy jobs to. This could be a physical machine, a virtual machine, or even a cloud instance.

 

  • A “pipeline” is a group of jobs chained together in an automated workflow. Pipelines can be triggered manually or automatically and run on a schedule.

 

  • “Jenkinsfile” is a text file that defines a Jenkins pipeline. It is typically checked into source control and a project’s code.

 

How To Install Jenkins?

Jenkins can be installed on-premises or used as a cloud-based solution. In addition, many plugins are available that extend the functionality of Jenkins.

 

  • To install Jenkins on-premises, you will need to install a server with a supported operating system and a JDK. We advise to use the latest LTS release of Jenkins. You can download it from the official Jenkins website.

 

  • Once you have downloaded the Jenkins .war file, you can run it using java -jar Jenkins. war. This will start a Jetty server instance on port 8080 by default. You can then access Jenkins at http://localhost:8080.

 

  • To install Jenkins as a cloud-based solution, you can use one of the many hosted providers, such as CloudBees, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, or Heroku.

 

Conclusion

Jenkins is a powerful tool that helps teams deliver software quickly and reliably. It is open-source, highly configurable, and easy to use. It can be used for both CI and CD and has a wide variety of plugins. Jenkins is a great tool for automating software development workflows.