• The eHealth Transformation Key: The Integration Competence Centre

    Author Miguel Cabrer González eHealth Advisor Innovation, Research and Communication Consulting, S.L. [email protected] www.ircconsulting.eu The Integration Question Over the past 10 years, computer-based patient record systems have been increasingly used in hospitals the new technological era we are living...

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  • User-Centric Design of Telecare Services

    Authors SteveBrown Alejandro Rodriguez-Ascaso Torbjørn Sund Bruno vonNiman Specialist Task Force STF299 European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Sophia Antipolis, France [email protected] www.etsi.org A Mass Market for Telecare? Telecare has the potential to resolve many...

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  • Facts and Figures: The Spanish Healthcare System

    Healthcare System & Administration Spain has a public healthcare system, mainly financed by taxes. As a result, healthcare in Spain is either free or low cost for residents (and their dependents) paying social security. The national healthcare system covers 99.7% of the Spanish population. The remaining 0.3% only has access to private medical...

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  • Andalucía – A Regional eHealth Success Story

    Authors María Jesús Montero, Regional Minister of Health, Andalucía Andalucía As the Member States of the European Union continue to make progress in implementing eHealth tools and solutions, regional plans are already well under way in some Member States. One such notable case is that of the Andalucía Region in Spain,...

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  • The Spanish Health Informatics Society (SEIS)

    The Spanish Health Informatics Society is a not-for-profit association of more than five hundred health and technical professionals with interests in improving and promoting the use of information and communication technologies in healthcare. SEIS was formed on 24 June 1997 and has become a common place of participation for computer science engineers,...

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  • eHealth is Worth it

    Authors Dr. Karl A. Stroetmann (top picture) empirica Communication and Technology Research [email protected] www.empirica.com   Alexander Dobrev empirica Communication and Technology Research [email protected] www.empirica.de www.ehealth-impact.org When the eHealth...

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  • IHE Expansion Continues with New Domains Arising

    There are four new integration profiles in trial implementation in the radiology domain in 2006: 1. Nuclear Medicine Image Integration Profile (NMI) with Cardiac Option is a change to the NM Image Profile, improving functionality for nuclear medicine cardiac image viewing. 2. Image Fusion (FUS) Integration Profile specifies communications...

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  • The Medical Imaging Industry in Germany

    Largest Single Imaging Market in Europe Author D r H ans -P eter B ursig M anaging D irector ZVEI D ivison M edical E ngineering F rankfurt Am M ain , G ermany BURSIG @ ZVEI . ORG Germany is probably unique in that it maintains two separate...

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  • IT and Workflow Organisation

    Information Technology in a University Radiology Department Author D r P eter M ildenberger S enior Radiologist D epartment of R adiology J ohannes G utenberg U niversity Hospital M ainz , G ermany MILDEN @ RADIOLOGIE . KLINIK . UNI - MAINZ . DE...

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  • Education and Training for Radiology

    The Experience in Germany Author P rof . D r   B erthold B. W ein A ssociate P rofessor of the D epartment of R adiology M edical Centre of the T echnical U niversity of A achen and P rivate P...

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