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Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System
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...
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MIS Dashboards:Buy or Built
Author Christopher Bain is Healthcare Management Informatician, WCMICS, Melbourne, Australia (www.health-mic.org) The growing trend in Europe (and much of the world) to corporatise hospitals and set performance targets has been accompanied by an escalation in management information requirements. One answer to...
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PROMILE: Making a E-Health Real
Author Pavel Kub ů , Kate ř ina Ška ř upová, Pavel Trnka are with the Institute for Medical Informatics, Charles University, Prague . Healthcare IT is not entirely a creature of the hospital environment. Indeed, there has long been a great deal of emphasis on preventive health,...
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Real Time Location: RFID, W-Lan, Wi-Fi and Ultrasound
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, Hospital managers face increased pressures from cost containment and other policy reforms, a relentless level of technological change and ever-newer product and solution choices, coupled to shortages of qualified staff. Meanwhile, there has been no let up in the need for improved efficiency and quality...
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Georgia's CIS Implementation
Author A. Burduli and G. Ghortlishvili are with Gitec Ltd.,Tbilisi, Georgia. E. Kldaishvili is with the Georgian Telemedicine Union (Association). A new clinical information system (CIS) has been launched in Georgia. Its primary goal is patient management. However, the system is...
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A Look Back at the EU RTD Programme FP-6(Part 2)
Our previous issue (HITM Vol. 3, Issue 3) provided a summary of 26 healthcare IT projects under the Sixth Framework Programme for Research (FP-6) which ran from 2001-06. We classified them into three categories used by the current Seventh Programme (FP-7): ICT and ageing, IT architecture and infrastructure, and bioinformatics and robotics. The second-part...
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Healthcare IT: The Business of the Profession
Author Tony Eardley and Adam Drury are consultants with Tribal Group. Successful IT supports a business environment by adding value to the organisation in achieving its strategic goals. In healthcare terms, this could mean better health outcomes for patients and safer, more effective services. It could also mean...
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The Challenge of Capacity Planning: A Core Role for IT
Author Knut Bergsland and Asmund Myrbostad are senior advisers at SINTEF Health Research in Norway (www.health-mic.org). Most European hospitals will have to expand their examination and treatment capacity in the future, as well as restructure core functions. Whether to remain competitive or for other reasons, it...
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Recommendation on Cross-Border EHR Interoperability
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, While much of Europe slumbered through its summer vacation, the program 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. At first sight, the Commission...
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Healthcare in Central Europe:Transiting to Catch-Up
In spite of such positive developments, considerable work still remains to be done. The systems predating EU accession were characterized by significant inefficiencies, with gaps in areas like primary care accompanied by over-supply in others (not least, in terms of specialist physicians, hospital beds and staff). Meanwhile, the growth...
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