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Time to Start Your m-Health Strategy
Author David Doherty cofounder of mHealth service provider 3G Doctor For many HIT Managers, the stars are aligning as colleagues and their patients, fuelled by the buzz of iPhones and Appstores, are beginning to show interest in using the mobile technologies that they're all familiar with. But what are the fundamentals...
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Healthcare Asset Maintenance and Patient Safety
Author T.E Jayapradha Independent Healthcare Analyst The greatest expenditure of hospitals today is mobile medical devices, starting from patient beds to other technologically advanced diagnostic systems. The efficiency of a healthcare organisation largely depends on its ability to know where things are and on how efficiently...
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HL7 Transmits Genetic Results to EHR
Health Level Seven (HL7), the global interoperability standards body for healthcare IT, has announced that its messaging standard has successfully coded genetic test results from a lab and transmitted them to an electronic health record for the first time. The HL7 Version 2 Implementation Guide details how to structure a genetic test result...
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Philips
Philips Conducts Spanish Telemedicine Study Philips and the Catalonia Health Service have completed a study on the benefits of telemedicine in patients with chronic diseases. The study, called Catalan Remote Management Evaluation (CARME), evaluated the impact of MOTIVA, a remote patient management solution, used in the care of 97...
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IBM,Initiate Systems
IBM to Acquire Initiate Systems IBM has signed an agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a data integrity software company used by healthcare and government companies. Initiate Systems will be the 30th acquisition by IBM strengthening its efforts within information and analytics. Initiate’s software enables healthcare professionals...
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Orion
Orion Health Leads EHR Solution in Spanish Community Care Orion Health has helped deploy the first electronic health record (EHR) in community care in Spain. Gestion Sanitaria de Mallorca (GESMA), a three-facility system focusing on social-medical issues, has selected Orion Health technology for the sharing of patient information and care plans....
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Bulgaria
Bulgarian Military Deploys Smart Cards The Bulgarian military has begun the deployment of smart cards to provide secure access to the electronic health records of military personnel and their family. Commissioned by Bulgaria’s Military Medical Academy, the personal health record (PHR) project aims to improve health records availability,...
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Italy
Smart Cards for Pregnant Women All the medical events relating to a woman's pregnancy will be made accessible in one click of a mouse in the Italian region of Veneto thanks to the 'Woman Card' ('Carta Donna' in Italian). Pregnant women will be handed out a smart card during their first examination; all the medical reports and ultrasounds...
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Medica
MEDICA, one of the world’s largest medical trade fairs and congresses saw its fortieth anniversary on 18-21 November in Dusseldorf in Germany. The fair is an opportunity for decision makers from across the world to come and discover the latest technologies and innovations, for professional development, networking and discovery. Over the...
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Keynote Speech on Globalisation and the Challenge for European Healthcare IT
Author Christian Marolt, Secretary General, European Association for Healthcare IT Managers, Brussels, October 29, 2009. Ladies and Gentleman, They say the world is globalising. One may like this, or one may not. But it is clear that our world is fast becoming borderless – whether it is in...
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