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Volume 4 - Issue 1, 2010

Mon, 4 Jan 2010

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In this Issue

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  • Editorial Board
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Editorial

  • Shrinking the Gaps: E-Health and Cardiology

    According to Moore’s law (named after Intel cofounder Gordon E. Moore), computer capacity increases exponentially, approximately doubling every two years. Two decades ago, for many medical professionals, a computer was still a novelty. Nowadays, an office without one looks bare, incomplete. The healthcare industry has been slow to adopt this new technology. Understandably, caution has been the watchwor...

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News & Views

  • Update From the European Institutions

    Spain Takes Over Presidency of EU Council Spain has pledged to drive forward the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA) during its six-month Presidency of the Council of the EU, which started on January 1st. Innovation and equality are at the heart of the Spanish Presidency programme, explained Science and Innovation Minister Cristina Garmendia who added, “Promoting the construction of the ERA...

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Exhibitors @ RSNA 2010

  • Update From Healthcare Industry

    European Approval Given to ST. Jude Medical ICD and CRT-D Devices St. Jude Medical implantable cardio verter defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac resynchronisation therapy defibrillators (CRTD) have been given the European CE Mark approval. The products, including the Fortify(TM) and Fortify ST ICDs as well as the Unify(TM) CRT-D, will be fully launched in Europe this spring. Their reduced size, the sma...

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Cover Story: E-Health - New Horizons for Cardiology

Features: Intervention

Features: Practice Management

  • Managing Surge Capacity: Balancing Resource Utilisation

    Worldwide, healthcare systems are struggling with higher costs and demands of becoming more cost-effective. Despite our efforts, diseases cannot be exterminated and treatments of curable diseases sometimes result in the manifestation of new ones. For instance, decreasing neonatal mortality has been replaced with diseases among aging population e.g. cancers, raising the need for new areas of competency, tr...

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  • Matching Talent and Jobs

    Programmed to under-perform? This is how some healthcare managers may feel when they go home after a typical day at work, according to a recent white paper ‘What Does Being in Over Your Head Look Like’. In reality, the average healthcare organisation creates leadership alignment (the right people in the right roles) approximately 55 percent of the time. Realistic expectations for leadership appointment...

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Features: Cardiovascular Pharmaceuticals & Medicine

  • Diastolic Dysfunction and Diastolic Heart Failure: Part One - Pathophysiology

    Diastolic dysfunction represents a mechanical malfunction of the relaxation of the left ventricular chamber primarily diagnosed by two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography and in most cases, has no immediate clinical relevance. The abnormal relaxation is usually separated in different degrees based on the severity of reduction in passive compliance and active myocardial relaxation. Diastolic heart fa...

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Country Focus: The Nordic Countries

  • Overview of the Healthcare Systems in the Nordic Countries

    The Nordic healthcare system has a long heritage. It is especially well-established with regard to primary and preventive healthcare. These couple into sophisticated occupational health standards which are considered to be models by the outside world. All Nordic countries also have highly-developed hospital services. Nordic healthcare systems are taxation based, and locally administrated with every citize...

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  • Cardiology in the Nordic Countries

    Overview of the National Societies of Cardiology in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark Norwegian Society of Cardiology (NSC) The Norwegian Society of Cardiology (NSC) was founded in 1969. Its main activities can be divided into: Organisational: Provides advice and support for the Norwegian Medical Association related to education in cardiology, professional advice and defining national priorities for hea...

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Interview: Cardiology Leaders

  • Interview with Prof. Valentin E. Sinitsyn:

    Co-Founder of the European Society of Cardiac Radiology Talks About Collaboration Between Cardiologists and Radiologists Born in Elizovo, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on 14 November 1961, Prof. Valentin Sinitsyn began medical school at the Sechenov 1st Moscow Medical Institute in 1978, and graduated in 1984. From 1984 to 1988 he worked as a resident and fellow in the Diagnostic Radiology Department...

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