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An Infrastructure for the Future
What are the overriding requirements for a hospital ICT system? High capacity and reliability, for sure. Flexibility and future-proofed, maybe. Yet most hospitals spend management time and money on individual systems like a new PAC S system or EMR customisation, ahead of sufficient investment into an efficient basis to satisfy the overriding requirements...
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Tele-Health in Cyprus
What kind of background does Cyprus have in tele-health? Telemedicine is evolving in Cyprus, with some forms of telemedicine in common practice in many fields of medicine throughout the country. Our aim is to incorporate telemedicine in everyday practice in Cyprus, especially as the whole island is covered with state of art telecommunications....
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The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) Announces President and Vice President
Dr. Josep M. Picas is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Hospital de St. Pau in Barcelona, Spain. He began his career in 1974 as a medical doctor, was appointed Director of the Hospital de l'Esperança in 1979 and Director of the Barcelona Town Council Primary Health Care Services in the C.Q. Peracamps in 1984. He served as Medical Director...
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WHP Initiative: Healthcare for the Rural Poor Takes Top Prize at IT @ NETWORKING 2011
The winning solution, Healthcare for the Rural Poor, combines technology with village entrepreneurs acting as facilitators to connect rural communities with formally qualified urban doctors. Using remote medical diagnostics integrated with audiovideo conferencing software this project enables patients from villages to access efficient and specialised...
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Denmark
Citizens logged in with their digital signature to their personal page on the Danish portal for citizens Borger.dk can now access their patient records and make use of a full range of health-related e-services. The 'My Health Summary' service allows them to have an overview of their health information prescriptions, hospital stays, electronic...
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Sweden
The national IT support for event analysis was launched in March 2011, to facilitate the analysis of events which lead to serious patient injuries occurring in healthcare. The idea is that by centralising these event analyses, resources can be pooled, enabling the development of more effective ways to prevent patient injury in the future....
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CSC Enters into Agreement to Acquire iSOFT’s Global Operations
In April, CSC announced it has signed an agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity of iSOFT Group Limited, one of the world's largest providers of advanced healthcare IT solutions, by way of a court-approved scheme of arrangement. The acquisition will complement and strengthen CSC's market-leading software products and healthcare integration...
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Philips Installs FlexMove Option for Hybrid OR
Philips Healthcare has announced the opening of the world's first hybrid OR with new FlexMove – a ceiling-mounted option for the Allura Xper x-ray system, designed to optimise workflow in hybrid ORs – at the University Hospital Zürich (UniversitätsSpital Zürich, USZ), Switzerland. A hybrid OR is the integration of a surgical operating room with...
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World Health Partners: Using Technology Advances to Deliver Health Services on Scale to Rural Clients Anywhere
A crucial challenge facing the development sector is the inability of communities living in rural and hinterland areas, which often account for 75 percent of the population in developing countries, to access vital health and reproductive health services. For over 60 years, the focus was on strengthening the public sector for this responsibility....
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The Clinical Workstation: a GPS for the Medical User
Benefits for the Healthcare User Most hospital systems have traditionally been "silo-based", expensive to maintain and infl exible. In contrast, all patient and hospital related information and processes are streamlined and integrated into one single clinical holistic system improving the quality of data. The focus of our approach was: Uniformity...
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