• Digital Quality Manuals: Delivering More Efficient Quality Management

    Author Dr. Christian Utler Head of the QM Department University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany E-mail: [email protected]   The Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital The Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital consists of 14 centres containing more than 80 interdisciplinary, collaborative...

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  • Modernisation of French Hospital Systems

    Author Corinne Gazeau , HIS Department Director, National Mission of the Support for Hospital Investment (‘Mission Nationale d’Appui à l’Investissement Hospitalier’) Paris, France Email: [email protected]   The investment in healthcare establishments must allow for building a healthcare...

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  • The Need for Clinical Engagement

    Author John Ironmonger, Account Director, System C Healthcare, Warrington, England Email: [email protected]   ‘How many doctors,’ goes the old joke, ‘does it take to change a light-bulb?’ There are plenty of possible answers to this riddle. ‘It depends if the bulb was insured,’ is an American...

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  • From Small-Talk to an EU ICT Prize

    Author Stéphane Chemouny , PhD, President and Director of Scientific Affairs, Intrasense, Montpellier, France Email : [email protected]   On March 16th 2007, Intrasense was awarded the European ICT Prize for its medical image review and aided-diagnosis software suite Myrian® at CeBIT, the world’s...

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  • Mobile Consultant: Diagnosis and Consultation on the Go

    Authors Konstantinos A. Banitsas, School of Engineering and Design, E&CE, Brunel University, West London, England Theodoros K. Kalyvas, GERCO LTD, Athens, Greece Pantelis Georgiadis Medical Image and Signal Processing Lab, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece...

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  • The Elderly, Who (e-)Cares?

    Authors Annelies Veys and An Jacobs, Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (www.ibbt.be), Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (smit.vub.ac.be), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Email: [email protected]   In the far north of Norway,...

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  • Healthcare IT Needs A ‘People Side’ Too

    Searching through the programme for the World of Health IT (WHIT) conference and exhibition, which takes place in Vienna from 22-25 October, what stands out is the evident commitment on behalf of the organisers to engage with as many stakeholders as possible.   The 2006 event in Geneva drew around 2,000 attendees and was certainly a success...

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  • IT-Supported Discharge Management

    Authors Dr. Holger Pschichholz, IT Department , University Hospital Freiburg Agnesenstraße 6-879106 Freiburg, Germany Email: [email protected]   Dr. Johanna Feuchtinger Quality and Development in Care, University Hospital Freiburg Breisacherstraße 6279106 Freiburg,...

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  • Health Cards in the Canton of Tessin

    Authors Dr . Marzio Della Santa , MPH, Project Leader Dr. Giuliana Corà, Scientific Collaborator Dr. Ignazio Cassis, MPH, Cantonal Doctor Department of Health and Social Affairs, Republic and Canton of Tessin, Bellinzona (Switzerland) www.retesan.ch Email: [email protected]...

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  • The Trends in Healthcare IT Integration in Finland

    Authors Teemu Paavola, CEO LifeIT Plc Koskenalantie 16, FI-60220 Seinäjoki, Finland Tel. +358 (0)6 429 8800 Fax +358 (0)6 429 8801 Email: [email protected]   Kari Mäkelä Professor of Telemedicine,Tampere University of Technology Koskenalantie 16, FI-60220 Seinäjoki, Finland...

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