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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 research...
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Asset Management:From Hospital Bedding to Software
From Bedding to Software: Two Cases Asset management and control is an enduring challenge for all hospitals. The scope and scale of hospital ‘assets’ is both vast and heterogeneous. Nevertheless, IT has been increasingly deployed, often in imaginative ways, to meet such challenges. Such demands are likely to grow as the current economic crisis...
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'I Have a Dream'-Barack Obama's Healthcare IT Vision
Tosh Sheshabalaya, The November 2008 US presidential elections have brought to the White House one of the country’s most resolute champions of healthcare reforms in recent memory. Barack Obama is – and has also long been a proponent of IT as a way to bring about efficiencies to the country’s bloated healthcare spend, and the deep rooted structural...
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Integrating the Health Enterprise:The IHE Mission
The fast-evolving field of e-Health standards is both a puzzle and a challenge to many healthcare IT managers. As the age of electronic health records (EHRs) approaches by the day, it is self-evident that optimal patient care will require care providers to create, access, update and use these records both efficiently and securely. ...
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Smart Cards and Healthcare:Learning from Europe
Therese R. Revesz, Principal at Revesz International LLC, New York. Having already proven themselves in Europe, smart cards hold immense promise for all segments of the US healthcare industry: insurers, public and private sector providers and patients. Convenient, portable, intelligent and secure, smart cards combine storage...
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Remote Cards of Patient-The Personal Health Devices Standard-ISO/IEEE 11073-20601
Malcolm Clarke is Senior Lecturer in telemedicine and eHealth Systems at Brunel University. He is former chairman of the American Telemedicine Association Special Inte r - est Group in Technology and is on CEN, HL7, IEEE and ISO committees working on standards for medical devices. With an...
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Patients Classification Systems-The Brazilian Experience
Marcia Galan Perroca is Professor, Department of Specialized Nursing, Medicine School in São José do Rio Preto (FAMERP), Brazil. Patient Classification Systems (PCSs) are an important tool in healthcare management to improve the efficacy and effectiveness of resource use. An overview of the concept, benefits and limitations...
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Britain Moves to Lift Mobile Phone Ban in Hospital
Catalina Ciolan, While much of Europe slumbered through its summer vacation, the programme to build a pan-European e-Health network shifted up one notch, after the European Commission published a Recommendation on cross-border interoperability of electronic health record (EHR) systems. Hospitals in England should allow the “widest...
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The Belgian Healthcare System
Kristof Eeckloo is with the Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Faculty of medicine, at Belgium’s Catholic University of Leuven. Belgium is a federal state. There are three levels of government: federal, regional (three regions and three communities) and local provinces and municipalities)....
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The Hospital System in Belgium and the Direction of Reforms
The Belgian healthcare system is a mix of mandatory national insurance and private medicine, a system of collective agreements between healthcare providers and insurance companies (national healthcare funds), and regulations issued by the public authorities. The Ministry of Public Health is responsible for defining laws on hospital programmes, the...
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