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European Commission's HEIDI Still Work in Progress
Heidi (Health in Europe: Information and Data Interface) is a new website and comprehensive search tool for European health information and data. Launched by the European Commission, DG Health and Consumers on October 6th 2010, it contains information about the public’s state of health, determinants, diseases, health systems, trends, institutional...
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Enterprise Architecture for Healthcare
Author Jim Quiggle Chief Architect and Founder, Altra Concepts Corp. The emergence of Enterprise Architecture may be a refreshing twist to the standard hype cycles because the Enterprise Architect will be the strongest advocate against hype, product or approach....
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Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS)
ECRI Institute Europe Weltech Centre Ridgeway Welwyn Garden City Herts AL7 2AA United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1707 871511 Fax: +44 (0)1707 393138 [email protected] www.ecri.org.uk ECRI Institute, a non-profit organisation, de - dicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific...
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Healthcare and Robotics: Miles to Go Before it Sleeps
Author: Tosh Sheshabalaya HIT In spite of a variety of implementations since the 1980s, the field of healthcare robotics remains experimental and largely nascent. However, the long-term promise that it holds is acknowledged to be immense. This means that not only researchers and healthcare practitioners, but policy makers,...
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Midwives and Technology: The Case from New Zealand
Authors: Dallas Knight University of Otago Sarah Stewart, Otago Polytechnic Dunedin, New Zealand Information and communication technologies (ICT) present midwives with new opportunities. This article reviews how New Zealand midwives currently use technology in their practice, and its implications – both for...
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Can Barcodes Revitalize the NHS?
Author Roger Lamb Healthcare Sector Manager, GS1 UK Bar codes offer a way around two everyday challenges faced by healthcare professionals: medication errors and quicker access to patient data. In addition, they also provide a proven means for higher efficiency in running a hospital – in terms of stock control and asset tracking....
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E-Health in Africa: Beyond the Hype
Author Maurice Mars Professor and Head of Tele-Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa “E-Health has the potential to be of great benefit to Africa if it can be planned and implemented in an appropriate and sustainable manner.” Statements like this are heard at many...
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Fluid Data Management: Cure for Storage Headaches
Author: Martin Murphy Technology Manager, HSE Galway University Hospitals Within the Republic of Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE), small teams of dedicated IT professionals face a constant challenge to maintain the systems that enable thousands of different health and social services to be delivered in hospitals and...
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The Healthcare System in Netherlands
Author: Tosh Sheshabalaya HIT Radical healthcare reforms in the Netherlands in January 2006 saw the State replaced as the central player in day-to-day operation of the healthcare system by private health suppliers. Alongside, the difference between public and private health insurance was abolished,...
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Healthcare IT in the Netherlands
Author: Tosh Sheshabalaya, HIT Healthcare IT in the Netherlands is driven by a combination of political and technological push-pull factors. The political facets in the process are underscored by an explicit commitment to clearing technology barriers astride the pathway to effective and meaningful...
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