• Florence,Clinical Information Integrated System and its Tool Florence Moblie

    Author Luis Barcia,  Miguel Ortiz Garcia,  Bernardo Vila Roig,  Alfonso Perez Cervello Torrevieja Salud ,  Spain, Microsoft The Torrevieja Hospital pursues a high efficiency management of its recourses, as well as the maximum level of services offered to its patients. And here “Florence” plays the key...

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  • Telestroke Programme

    Author Oscar Ezinmo,  Carmen Jimenez / Servei de salut de les illes balears, Spain A stroke is an acute vascular event that is associated with bleeding into the brain or decreased blood flow part of the brain. Both hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes may be treatable. Hemorrhagic strokes may be amenable to surgery (i.e. to...

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  • Shared Web-Based Electronic Patient Record for Hospital,General Practitioner and Patient

    Author Peeter Ross,  Kelli Podoshvilev/ East Tallinn Central Hospital, Estonia Much attention has been paid to the development of the functionality and user friendliness of the electronic patient record (EPR) inside healthcare institutions. However, secure distribution of me - dical data outside the organisation still remains...

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  • Paper Free Patient Care

    Author Raymond Rooijakkers / EMEA, Germany Like many hospitals, Ammerland- Klinik, located in Westerstede, Germany, has been moving toward implementing electronic medical records (EMR) for several years. In 1997, the 356-bed hospital opted for a hospital information system. In 2007, the decision was made to also upgrade the hospital’s...

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  • Biofeedback and Virtual Reality: The INTREPID Project

    Author Alessandra Gorini,  Claudia Repetto,  Federica Pallavicini,  Giuseppe Riva/ Istituto Auxologico Italiano,  Milan, Italy;  Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,  Milan , Italy Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is a psychiatric disorder characterised by a constant and unspecific anxiety that...

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  • Computerised Surveillance and Alerting of Nosocomial Infections

    Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Consumption in the Intensive Care Unit Author Kristof Lamont,  Kristof Taveirene,  Kristen Colpaert / IBBT, Belgium; UZ Gent Hospital acquired or nosocomial infections are associated with unfavourable clinical and economic outcomes, and are especially alarming in the intensive...

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  • Orthopedic Web-Based Fracture Healing Telediagnostic Decision Support System

    Author Wojciech Michal Glinkowski,  Adam Karpowicz,  Pioter Orlowski,  Andrzej Gorecki / Medical University of Warsaw, Poland; Polish Telemedicine Society; Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology Fracture healing assessment is both a clinically relevant and frequently used outcome measure in...

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  • The Biosig Project-Getting a Grip on Biosignals

    Author Alois Schlogl,  Hubert Leitner / Graz University of Technology, Austria;  Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltenges.m.b.H. Biomedical signals like electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG), electromyogram (EMG), etc. are (like medical images and clinical laboratory results) an important part of the patient...

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  • Videoconferencing Application to Improve the Quality of Service Given to Cancer Patients

    Author Marc Monballieu,  Donald Claeys / AZ Maria Middelares, Belgium When a doctor diagnoses cancer, a “Multidisciplinary Oncological Consultation” is recommended and in some cases obligatory, in accordance with the oncological care programmes in Belgium. This entails a consultation between all the doctors concerned...

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  • Lifetime Dental Cross

    Author Tatjana Dostalova,  Jana Zvarova,  Karel Zvara,  Michaela Seydlova,  Karel Chleborad,  Vaclav Kaspar / E uroMISE Centre, Prague,  Czech Republic; Department of Pediatric Stomatology, Second Faculty of Medicine of Charles University and University Hospital Motol; Department of Medical Informatics,...

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