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The Electronic Health Record in Siberia
Author Michael Weinhara, Hospital Economist and Team Leader. Serbia’s new EHR system went live a few months ago, marking a major milestone in its efforts to leapfrog interim solutions and access the benefits of e-Health in the shortest possible period of time. Overall, the Serbian EHR is both a national e-Health backbone...
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The Computerization of Healthcare in Romania
An Experiment in Progress Author Marius Stupu is IT Manager of SUUB, the University Hospital of Bucharest. An overview of changes in the hospital/healthcare IT system in Romania – long known for a traditionally high caliber of IT competencies - is provided below by the IT manager of one of the country’s leading...
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Doing the Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons
Author Robert H. Roswell is Professor of Medicine at the Oklahoma University Col lege of Medicine and a former Under Secretary for Health, U.S. De partment of Veterans Affairs. The need to reduce errors, increase economies of scale in a fragmented system, and derive efficiencies in the delivery of medical...
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Cradiology and IT in the Context of IHE
The Health Enterprise (IHE) Author Tim Becker and Rüdiger Simon are with the Department of Cardiology at the Uni - versity Hospital of Schles - wig-Holstein in Germany. Computer applications are indispensable tools in cardiology today for digital image acquisition, deployment and reviewing, and also...
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EHR :Privacy vs.Interoperability
Openness/Interoperability Versus Privacy/Security Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, Both philosophically and technologically, the margins of the debate about electronic health records (EHRs) have been set by the long-running trade-off between openness and interoperability on the one hand, and privacy and security/confidentiality...
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Software as a Service (SaaS): Fad or Trend
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya The Gartner Group, a respected IT research firm, finds that organizations usually spend up to four times upfront costs to manage their software after purchase. Some spend as much as 75 percent and more of their total IT budget on maintaining and operating existing IT systems and infrastructure....
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One-Size-Fits-All?No,Not Always,in IT
Author Catalina Ciolan ASSIST, an association of 1,800 healthcare IT professionals in Britain, has published the results of a survey on the Big Bang modernization project of the England’s National Health Service. Its findings may underscore the need for some re-evaluation of the parameters and objectives of major healthcare...
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IT and Medical Technology:Growing Convergence
The Klinik am Eichert in Göppingen (Germany) Breaks New Ground Author Joachim Hiller and Timo Baumann are respectively Heads of the Biomedical Department and of the Department Service Centre IT and Org anisation at the Klinik am Eichert in Göppingen, Germany. Information technology and biomedical...
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Healthcare in Eastern Europe
A Multi-Speed, Multi-Dimensional Matrix of Change Though generally behind their counterparts in central Europe (the Country Focus in our previous issue), significant developments are also underway in the healthcare systems in eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine). As in central Europe, a major driver is the impact...
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Healthcare IT System in Eastern Europe
Serbia Serbia’s e-Health vision is part of the government’s September 2005 position paper: National Strategy for an Information Society in Serbia. This defines the main issue as “the implementation of an infrastructure to provide for medical care, disease prevention, and health education on-line.” In general, the Strategy Paper...
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