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My Fundamental Right to Cross-Border Healthcare
Dear Reader, Properly working cross-border healthcare is a fundamental right of every European citizen. This goes hand in hand with the free movement of persons. The European Union has its main focus on IT collaboration with the USA. But HITM feels that this is too narrow. Therefore we have tak
Read moreTelecare in Andalusia
The University Hospital Virgen Macarena of Seville and the Superior Engineering School of Seville University are jointly carrying out a new research project for the implementation of a complete telecare system for kidney patients. “Modular customisable architecture for com
Read moreIntegrated IT to Optimise Patient Care
In March of this year COCIR - the European trade association for the medical technology industry hosted a meeting with the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, John Dalli and senior representatives from hospital and healthcare providers. The meeting in  
Read moreKpmg Report: Tech-Savvy Baby Boomers to Drive Demand for E-Health
The report from KPMG together with the Manchester Business School, Accelerating Innovation: The power of the crowd, is based on in-depth interviews with ehealth executives representing 15 countries, as well as insights from KPMG's global healthcare partners. Due to cha
Read moreCall for Papers
Researchers are invited to submit research articles addressing the new research and development of wearable devices, which can be used for the monitoring and treatment of patients suffering from chronic diseases. Of particular interest are papers which consider a set of sens
Read more“Linking people, potential and progress”
The main objective of HIMSS 2012 was helping healthcare IT professionals to achieve new goals while maintaining their organisation’s commitment to unsurpassed quality of care. It was about bridging the gap between meeting requirements and implementing processes. Hot topics at this year’s conferenc
Read moreHIT Leadership at the Speed of Change
One of the key highlights from HIMSS 2012 was the CHIME CIO Forum. The topic of this year’s forum was Healthcare IT Leadership at the Speed of Change. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organisation dedicated to serving chief information officers an
Read moreThe State of Health IT in Iberia
In years past, much of the focus on European markets concentrated on the arger economies of Germany, the UK, France, and Italy. There is relatively little knowledge of the healthcare IT markets in other Eurozone countries, particularly among US vendors looking to expand &nbs
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