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...
READ MOREAuthor 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...
READ MOREAuthor 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...
READ MOREAuthor 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...
READ MOREAuthor 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...
READ MOREAntimicrobial 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...
READ MOREAuthor 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...
READ MOREAuthor 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...
READ MOREAuthor 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...
READ MOREAuthor 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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