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Perspectives on Lab Automation:Past,Present and Future
Author Greg Dummer is Executive Director of the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA). Dr. Sabeth Verpoorte is Program Chairman of the Scientific Committee at this year’s annual ALA conference. HITM: Please Tell Us a Little Bit About the History and Membership Composition...
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Laboratory Information Systems
ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) is a nonprofit health services research agency and a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization (WHO). Such organisations are appointed to contribute to the WHO’s public health mission by providing specialise knowledge, expertise and support in the health field to the WHO and its...
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A Unified Systems Engineering Methodology for Trustworthy Systems
Formal models help, but the essence is formalised thinking Eric Verhulst is director of the Open License Society. More information at www.OpenLicenseSociety.org Why Projects Fail As our systems grow in complexity, so does the software content. And software engineering as such is not yet a fully...
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SNOMED CT-Enabling Systamatic Interoperablity Throught Clinical Terminology
Author Theo Bosma is Vice President of Global Sales at Health Language, Inc., which services the worldwide healthcare industry through innovative software infrastructure technology and expertise. For cited references, please contact [email protected] What is Semantic Interoperability?...
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The OFEK Health Information Network
For medical practitioners, missing clinical information is as much an everyday nuisance as hard reality. Current efforts to create health information networks (HIN) seek to directly tackle this problem. However, with a handful of exceptions, progress has been uneven. It may be several years before technically integrated, seamless and comprehensive...
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Reducing Security Risk to E-Health
Author Blake Suthherland is vice president of product management at Third Brigade. The New Threat Until recently, attention-seeking hackers were the main IT security threat to businesses, including healthcare organisations. These types of mass attacks often had no particular target in mind; they would simply...
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Benifits of Open Source in Healthcare
Author Shahid N. Shah is CEO of Netspective Communications, a software consultancy specialised in delivering custom healthcare software solutions. The Benefits of Open Source Visibility: If a vendor open sources its software, its visibility will be increased because it’s not proprietary and the press, competitors,...
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Implementing a Successful Cultural Change
Author James Rizzi is Director, Computational Technology, at Array BioPharma, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialisation of orally active drugs to address significant unmet medical needs. Array’s Decision on ELN: Motives and Origins In 1999, our...
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Daveloping Top Quality Teams to Modernise IT Systems
The Case of Arras Hospital Author Arnaud Hansske , MD, is the CIO of Arras Hospital. Pilot Project to Learn the Contours of Change We started out with the belief that we had to take a long and sweeping rethink about how IT and new architecture could improve and optimise the organisation of a hospital...
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Healthcare Reforms and IT
Ovarview Recent healthcare reforms in the Netherlands have been relatively radical. The State has been replaced as the central player in day-to-day operation of the healthcare system by private health suppliers, although the government remains responsible for accessibility and quality of healthcare. Alongside, the previous difference...
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