Author: Christian Hay Delegate Healthcare, GS1 Switzerland *On 16th February 2007, the Department of Health in the UK decides to join GS1 for all the NHS activities. In France a similar approach is currently in deployment by University Hospitals. Th e 6th conference of the GS1 HUG™ (Healthcare User Group) took...
READ MOREAuthor: Dr. John Halamka, Chief Information Officer, Harvard Medical Faculty, USA Medical School E-Mail: [email protected] Over the past 5 years, payers and providers in Massachusetts, US have implemented web-based, handheld and electronic medical record integrated e-prescribing. As a...
READ MOREContact Information: Kees H. Polderman, MD, PhD Vice Chairman, Department of Intensive Care University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands Tel.: +3130 2503261 Fax: +3120 7620294 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] In recent years the issue of temperature management...
READ MOREAuthor : Prof. Juraj Nemec Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic Email: [email protected] The Slovak government in the post- Soviet era started massive reforms, focusing on maintaining the access to, and increasing the quality of healthcare systems. Other priorities were to...
READ MOREAuthor P rof . D avide C aramella A ssociate Professor of R adiology D epartment of Diagnostic and I nterventional Radiology University of P isa P isa , I taly CARAMELLA @ MED . UNIPI . IT In Italy, there are thirty-eight universities...
READ MOREAuthor P rof . P almino S acco P oliclinic ‘L e S cotte ’ S iena , I taly PSACCO @ SIRM . ORG Founded in 1913, the Italian Society of Medical Radiology (SIRM) is a scientific association of which its membership includes the majority of Italian radiologists, counting...
READ MOREAs well as a scientific congress and technical exhibit, the 2006 edition of the ‘Journées Françaises de Radiologie’ (JFR) meeting, welcomed radiologists, physicians, technologists, industrial and all other healthcare professionals. As with each year, the JFR assembled numerous French and French-speaking radiologists, actors and industry representatives...
READ MOREThe 92nd Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) saw attendance increased by three percent from last year. The congress included 1,625 scientific papers in 17 subspecialties, more than 300 refresher courses, 1,428 education exhibits and 638 scientific posters. 738 technical exhibits occupied 514,800 square...
READ MORESectra is releasing a new, enhanced version of its advanced tool for optimising workflow and resource utilisation in radiology departments. Sectra’s management tool, Sectra Control Tower, provides department managers full control and overview of current production statistics as well as historical data used for trend analysis. Sectra Control Tower...
READ MOREAO Medical Products AB, has signed an agreement with the manufacturing company Gerätebau Felix Schulte in Germany, known as Planilux. The cooperation is regarding sales and distribution of Carl’s Table, AO Medical’s ergodynamic PACS reading station, from Jan 1st, 2007. Planilux is a manufacturer of analogue film viewing equipment. ...
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