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Overview of the Healthcare System in Greece
Author Nikos Maniadakis Ass. Prof. Health Economics and Management Department of Economics, University of Piraeus Piraeus, Greece [email protected] The Greek healthcare system is characterised by the coexistence of a National Health System (NHS), compulsory social insurance and a strong voluntary...
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Profile of the Hellenic Cardiological Society: Profile, Structure & Goals
Author Dr. Anastasia N. Kitsiou Cardiology Department, Sismanoglio Hospital Athens, Greece [email protected] The Hellenic Cardiological Society (HCS) was founded in Athens on September 7, 1948, and has been closely linked to the history of cardiology in Greece. The HCS is also one of the 14 founding...
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Educating Cardiologists in Greece: An Overview of the System
Author Prof. Dennis V. Cokkinos Professor Emeritus Director First Department of Cardiology, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre Athens, Greece [email protected] Cardiovascular diseases, as the primary cause of mortality and morbidity, have increasingly necessitated the expansion and development...
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Interview with Prof. Stefanadis
Interviewee Prof. C. Stefanadis Dean of the Medical School,University of Athens Chairman First Department of Cardiology, University of Athens Athens, Greece What are Your Specific Areas of Interest Within this Field and How has This Evolved? My heart belongs to interventional cardiology....
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IHE Cardiology Technical Committee: Achieving Effective Systems Integration
Authors Dr. Tim Becker Dr. Rüdiger Simon Department of Cardiology University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany [email protected] Computer applications are indispensable tools in cardiology today for digital image acquisition, deployment and reviewing, and also for documentation,...
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Report on Remote Monitoring for Cardiology
Authors Kousik Krishnan Assistant Professor of Medicine Courtney Schuten, Nurse Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology Rush University Medical Center Chicago, Illinois, US [email protected] Over the past 12 months, there has been a rapid and widespread...
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PACS in the Cardiology Department
Author Ranjit Ravindranathan Market Analyst Medical Imaging Healthcare (EIA) Frost & Sullivan London, UK Managing cross-departmental communications in a healthcare setting has been greatly improved by the emergence of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) as a vital supporting infrastructure,...
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Mechanical Circulatory Support: New Generation Devices Mark a New Era
Author Dr. Antonis A. Pitsis Thessaloniki Heart Institute St. Luke’s Hospital Thessaloniki, Greece [email protected] Long-term Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) was initially used in clinical practice to bridge patients in end-stage heart failure through to heart transplantation. Rapid developments...
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Evaluating Heart Disease: The Role of Cardiac Imaging
Authors Dr. Gabriel Meinhardt Prof. Udo Sechtem Department of Cardiology Robert Bosch Krankenhaus Stuttgart, Germany [email protected] Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of mortality in the industrial world. Cardiac imaging is essential to establish the diagnosis...
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Healthcare IT and ROI
A New Element in an Old Equation Author Guido Doucet is a Belgian PMI-certified IT consultant, previously with Philips and PwC. How times have changed? A decade ago, IT in healthcare was seen as little more than a country cousin of sectors like banking, retail, transportation or manufacturing. Its status,...
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