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Home Healthcare for the Aged and IT
Homecare and Information Technology Author Vivian Vimarlund is Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden. Predictions that information technology would become a critical element in the elderly health and homecare setting of the future have proven to...
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The Evolving Role of the CMIO
Author Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler is CMIO, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland. Healthcare informatics lies at the hub of two forceful, fast evolving trends. The first is the IT industry’s own drive to provide systems developed for the very specific needs of healthcare providers – ranging from pharmacies and specialised...
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PACS and IT
Does IT Really Decrease Costs of Healthcare IT? Ing. E.Talini and Prof. D. Caramella are with the diadnostic and Interventional Radiology Department of the University of Pisa, Italy. During the last three years, the Radiology Department at the University Hospital in Pisa, Italy,...
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Evolution in Healthcare IT Delivery
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, Just after the turn of this decade, it quickly became apparent that investments by the healthcare sector in the emerging e-business infrastructure were simply not keeping pace with other industries. For many analysts of paradigm shifts in technology, however, this was a blessing in disguise. The dotcom...
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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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