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Physician Practitioner Information System
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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Value Modeling in Healthcare
Author Paul Johannesson is Professor of Information Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Erik Perjons is a research engineer at the Institute. Politicians, healthcare managers, and systems designers need new instruments for managing the complexity of today's healthcare systems. One of...
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Oncology HIS System
Author Andrew Hoole, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University, UK. Edwin Claridge, University Hospital, Birmingham, UK. A Mini HIS for Oncology The selection and integration of appropriate information systems is one of the challenges facing hospital managers in their quest to achieve...
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Healthcare IT Reforms in US
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, In spite of its acknowledged status as the hub of innovation and technology, the US has lagged many other industrialised countries in the area of healthcare IT. The new US President, Barack Obama, has made it a political priority to change this state of affairs, as we discussed in the previous issue...
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E-Health Investments
Author Alexander Dobrev, empirica Tom Jones, TanJent Consulting Karl A. Stroetmann, empirica The increase in demand for health services tends more and more often to outstrip the increase in supply. Ageing populations, increasing incidence of chronic diseases, and improvements in medical knowledge...
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Predicting Patients Admission Rates
Author Justin Boyle, is a Research Scientist with CSIRO Australia Evidence-based research demonstrates that overcrowding in emergency departments causes ambulance diversion, increased hospital lengths of stay, medical errors, increased patient mortality, financial losses to hospital and physician, and medical negligence...
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Nanotechnology and Healthcare
Author Paul J.A. Borm, is with Magnamedics Diagnostics BV at Geleen and Centre of Expertise in Life Sciences, Zuyd University, Heerlen, Netherlands Recent years have witnessed unprecedented growth of research and applications in the area of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. There is increasing optimism...
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Italy's Healthcare System in Transition
The Italian National Health Service (INHS) was established in 1978 to grant universal access to a uniform level of care throughout Italy, financed by general taxation. The INHS provides universal coverage and free health care at point of delivery to all Italian and European Union citizens. In spite of this, there are considerable...
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Healthcare IT and E-Health in Italy
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, Italy’s approach to healthcare IT, and more specifically e-Health, has three facets. These are based on: Ó National-scale techno-infrastructural requirements (the New National Healthcare Information System). Ó e-Health Board, to harmonise regional and national policies and implementation,...
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Italian Hospitals and New Managerialism
Author Elena Cantu, is with Bocconi University, Milan, Italy From 1978, the Italian healthcare system has been organised according to the National Health Service model (Italian National Health Service, or INHS). Coverage is universal and, theoretically, uniform throughout the country. In 2003, public healthcare expenditure...
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