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Carestream
University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) Purchases Latest RIS From Carestream Health Following a recent European tender process, Carestream Health has been awarded the contract to supply a new Radiology Information System (RIS) for eight departments at the University Medical Centre, Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands. Installation is scheduled...
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European Pharmacists and Patients
Pharmacists and patients welcomed the new proposal for a directive on Pharmacovigilance at an event held on Wednesday 15 September 2010 at the European Parliament as an opportunity for pharmacists and patients to work more effectively together to improve medication safety. The new directive was adopted by the European Parliament on 21...
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Fluid Data Management: Cure for Storage Headaches
Author: Martin Murphy Technology Manager, HSE Galway University Hospitals Within the Republic of Ireland’s Health Service Executive (HSE), small teams of dedicated IT professionals face a constant challenge to maintain the systems that enable thousands of different health and social services to be delivered in hospitals and...
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Nursing and e-Health
Author: Paula M Procter Reader in Informatics and Telematics in Nursing Sheffield Hallam University, UK In spite of being at the forefront of healthcare IT, the nursing profession has both abandoned and been overlooked by the former. Closer involvement is essential to make healthcare IT meaningful for practitioners...
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E-Health and its Challenges
Author: Eike-Henner W. Kluge Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Canada E-Health promises to be a cost-effective and efficient way of providing healthcare at an affordable cost to patients who would otherwise be excluded or underserviced. However, e-health also comes with a series of ethical and legal challenges...
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Silverlight Implementation
Author: Henry Lee Founder and President, New Age Solution Information is vital in today’s marketplace, not just as a record, but a means to gauge future trends. Nowhere is this more important than the healthcare industry. Today, medical information is no longer centralised to a hospital setting. On the contrary, healthcare...
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Commissioner for Development Addresses Global Health MDGS
At the Cross Europe Conference, EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, addressed the progress made toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the work still need to be done. In his keynote address at the conference titled “Delivering the Right to Health with the Health Millennium Development Goals,” Piebalgs offered...
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New Legislation to Reduce Injuries for 3.5 Million Healthcare Workers
The European Commission has adopted a Directive to prevent injuries and infections to healthcare workers from sharp objects such as needle sticks. The Directive implements in law a framework agreement on prevention from sharp injuries in the hospital and healthcare sectors signed in July 2009 by the European Public Services Union (EPSU)...
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France
First Emergency Telediagnosis Over Regional Telecardiology Network On 5 March 2010, 1:30 am, the first request for an emergency telediagnosis over a radiology network named 'T-Lor' was made in the region of Lorraine, in north eastern France. The T-Lor network project aims to enable tele-expertise and telediagnosis as well as the exchange of...
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Denmark
Single Access to Personal Health Records The 'My Health summary' service, now available through the Danish e-health portal 'Sundhed.dk' allows authenticated users to obtain a faster and better overview of their own patient data. Once logged into the health portal with their digital signature, users can access this personal health...
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