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Letter from the Secretary General and Editor-in-Chief, HITM
Dear Reader, We are all creatures of today, carrying the legacy of yesterday and the vision of our tomorrows. The term 'Megatrend' would then be the red rope which binds the chronology of our lives and all that happens within. Recent years have seen an increase in the already massive attention given to healthcare. In the Western world at least,...
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McKesson Awarded BCS IT Supplier of the Year
McKesson UK, a healthcare IT solutions and services specialist, has been awarded 'IT Supplier of the Year' by the British Computer Society (BCS) & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2010. The award recognises McKesson's outstanding achievements and contributions in delivering innovative IT solutions and services to healthcare organisations across the...
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Carestream Health Launches New Cloud-Based eHealth Portal Service
Carestream Health launched a new eHealth portal service at RSNA last week, which will be available in Europe and the United States in early 2011. The new service, which is part of Carestream's portfolio of cloud-based eHealth Managed Services (eMS), enables healthcare providers using the company's remote eHealth Archive Services to access data by any...
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Security Considerations For Mobile Communications
Author Louis Leahy Inventor, Armorlog TM VPCSML TM Smart phones and personal digital assistants (PDA) are fast replacing the desktop, laptop and notebook computers as the primary access device of digital network users. In some developing economies that rely on mobile phones primarily for communications...
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Evidence Based Design
Author Pernille Weiss Terkildsen Owner and CEO of ArchiMed, Denmark How the built environment in healthcare influences output in terms of patient safety, efficiency, quality of care, staff turnover, total economy etc, is often overlooked. Perhaps this is because hospitals are different to “normal”...
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Driving Operational Efficiency: How to make ‘IT’ work
Author Lindsey Sutherland, Director of IT, Newton Europe I t has long been an axiom that IT systems, and their efficient use, can help control escalating healthcare costs. An industry expert who has worked on a variety of projects for the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK offers his...
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Promoting Patient Data Safety With No Headaches
Good information governance is a particularly important area for the healthcare profession where large amounts of personal information about employees and patients are handled every day. Ensuring that access to patient data is secure while also ensuring its availability for relevant clinicians and managers, is critical. Nevertheless, it seems...
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The Healthcare System in France
HITM Editorial Team Like other European Welfare States, France has a system of universal health care. This is largely financed by the government through a system of national health insurance. However, there are some major differences in the structure of the French healthcare system and in its financing, versus its EU peers. Most crucially,...
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Healthcare Reforms in France
HITM Editorial Team The French healthcare system, in some senses, resembles “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”. This may seem an unflattering comment for some; it was the expression used by Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union on the eve of the Second World War. However, one could make a case for at least some degree of...
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E-Health in France
HITM Editorial Team France’s Hospital 2012 reform plan seeks to double the share of spending on healthcare IT from 1.7 percent - a level at the bottom rungs of the EU league table - to 3 percent, and their modernisation constitutes one of the Plan’s over-arching objectives. The hub of the French healthcare IT modernisation programme is...
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