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Patient ID and Security Systems
ECRI Institute 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 nonprofit organisation, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research...
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Transiting Hospitals from Past to Future
Author Rainer Harpf a H nd erwig Wetzlinger . Like other countries in Europe, the Austrian hospital and healthcare system faces a period of rapid change, accompanied by a host of new and sometimes-unfamiliar challenges. Managers are being compelled to rethink strategy and policies as a result of changes in the healthcare...
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Lizards, Dust and Vaccinations
Author John Rigstad Director of Information Services, Medair. ICT is vital to the success of disaster relief operations. However, its implementation is fraught with some unusual challenges, especially for Medair, one of the world’s handful of ISO 9001-certified humanitarian aid organisations. Alongside the...
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The RFID Oppurtunity for Healthcare
Author TCoatsahli nSah eCsihoalabnalaya, RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) devices have been visibly gaining acceptance across a variety of industries, principally for supply chain management in fast-moving areas such as retailing. As a relatively later entrant, the healthcare sector has benefited from more maturity...
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TELMES
Author SFloorriinn SPeursbcaoncei,scu, BFloagviduasn B Daijoannisie, Telemedicine is part of the expanding use of information and communications technology in health care for prevention, disease management, home health care, long-term care, emergency medicine, and other applications. In Romania, the diversification...
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Of Disaster and Data Managment
As computers become ubiquitous, the issue of vital data loss due to disaster, is a growing concern for all computer users – from individuals and small firms, to large organisations in sensitive areas such as the military, banks or hospitals and, of course, healthcare facilities. Such security concerns sweep across a vast range of possibilities: the...
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Growing Complexity of Healthcare IT Will Drive Outsourcing
Technology in general, and IT specifically, have become one of the most pervasive aspects of healthcare delivery, touching nearly all its aspects. Today, a whole new universe of possibilities is being opened up in the shape of e-Health programmes. Most hospitals, however, lack the resources or skills to go it alone in building new IT infrastructures...
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The Data Challenge for E-Health
Author Patrice Blemont Questions about healthcare data access and sharing on the one side, and security and privacy on the other, are integral to debates about European e-Health. In technical terms, there is also a need for data management, issues of data entry, access and storage, and this at a multitude of levels –...
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Healthcare in Austria
The roots of the Welfare State in Austria date back to the Middle Ages, in the shape of the Ausgedinge, a flat-rate income paid to free farmers in rural areas after they retired and transferred their holdings. Miners too had their own health insurance and pension scheme. Indeed, some believe that Austria’s mining law cooperatives are the world’s oldest...
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IT and Austrian Healthcare
Healthcare IT has an unusually high official profile in Austria. The Federation Board, which manages the Austrian social insurance system has four Advisory Committees. Three of these are typical in much of the EU – on work and accident insurance, on old age, and health insurance. But alongside, one committee is dedicated wholly to IT. ...
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