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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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Healthcare IT Projects in Central Europe
Czech Republic A National Action Plan eEurope+, dating back to 2002, includes an on-line Health (Zdravotnictvi) program. This is focused on enhanced usage of the Internet to improve quality and cost-effectiveness in the delivery of health care and covers telemedicine and medical documentation. Specific objectives include replacement of health...
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A Look Back at the EU RTD Programme FP-6
In our previous issue, we provided an overview of healthcare IT projects awarded under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research. As noted, many underscore the EU’s response to its e-Health agenda and pathways to use IT to cope with the challenges of an ageing population. Given below is a summary of healthcare IT projects under the Sixth Framework Programme....
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Hospital Mergers and IT in the Czech Republic
Author Martin Zeman is CIO, Regional Health Corporation, Czech Republic. The accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union has entailed dramatic changes in its hospital structures and healthcare delivery policies. IT has been both a driver and a passenger in such a process....
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Whither the AS/400?
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, It is a question on the minds of several healthcare IT managers, and their counterparts in other fields of business. What is the future of IBM's AS/400, a workhorse in hospitals and other enterprises across Europe? In spite of a blizzard of technology and marketing firsts, IBM itself seems to be seriously...
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GPs and IT
Author Chris O’Riordan is Head of the Centre for Management Research in Healthcare and Healthcare economics, Waterford Institute of Technology, and Mark Rowe is Managing Director, Rowe Creavin Practice, Waterford. If those of us of a certain age (in other words, no longer in...
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The Healthcare System in Ireland
In spite of some persistent concerns, Ireland’s healthcare system has been bracing itself for meeting challenges in the years ahead. The country has a mixed public and private healthcare system. These have been subject to considerable reforms in the past two decades. Yet, there is considerable anecdotal and statistical evidence that healthcare delivery...
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IT and the Irish Healthcare System
Information technology has a major role in terms of meeting the objectives of Ireland’s 10- year Health Strategy 2001 Plan. The Plan consists of three pillars: Setting the Scene, Improving the System, and Implementing Change. Explicit IT-related elements are concentrated in the second, on determining ways and means to improve the healthcare system....
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