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Letter from the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, HITM
Dear Reader, As you are well aware, the IT@ Networking Awards 2009 is fast approaching. 79 excellent submissions have exceeded our expectations by far. Only 30 could make it into the first round MINDBYTE Sessions as NOMINEE, leaving us with top quality projects and an astounding rejection rate of over 60 percent...
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Health IT Stimulus: Obama's Dream or Nightmare
Author Dr. Miroslav Madjaric, CIO and Advisor to the CEO, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Croatia. In two previous issues, HIT presented an overview of plans by President Barack Obama concerning stimulation of health IT implementation in the US. To recap, the Obama vision relates to governmental...
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Healthcare in United Kingdom
Author Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chair, Institute of Healthcare Management, London The United Kingdom (UK) is comprised of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and is situated within the British Isles. A constitutional monarchy governed from Parliaments in London and Edinburgh, and Assemblies in Cardiff and...
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Healthcare IT in Britain
Healthcare IT in Britain is today symbolised, rather starkly, by the troubled NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). This ambitious initiative was meant to catapult Britain into pole position in the global e-health readiness league. It sought to link more than 30,000 GPs to nearly 300 hospitals, provide comprehensive e-prescribing and develop a centralised...
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E-Health on Track According to the European Commission
The European Commission has published an update on its Lead Market Initiative (LMI) for e-health. The report indicates that it is too early to notice any market growth as a result of the LMI activities. E-Health was chosen to be one of the six markets of the LMI due to its market potential in terms of growing demand and market growth opportunities,...
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Requirements and Options for Rfid in Healthcare
The European Commision commissioned a "Study on the requirements and options for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) application in healthcare". The final report provides an assessment of the main drivers, obstacles and uncertainties surrounding the deployment of RFID in healthcare in Europe. It identifies the most promising RFID applications in...
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The European Associations of Healthcare IT Managers
The European Association of Healthcare IT Managers (HITM) is a non-profit pan-European umbrella association of all relevant national healthcare IT associations in Europe. Believing in the fundamental importance of unifying healthcare IT professionals at European and global levels, HITM is committed to increasing the professional authority...
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Germany
Ten Point Plan for Medical Technology BVMed has published a ten-point plan for the care of patients with advanced medical technology as a basis for health policy discussions due to take place in the coming months along with the German Bundestag election campaign. The ten points are: 1. The quality rating of medical devices...
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Sweden
Public Procurement of Innovation Public Procurement of Innovation conference will take place in Stockholm, Sweden on 13 October 2009. The conference will discuss and illustrate Public Procurement of Innovations, PPI, within the Life Science sector. The aim is also to inform about the possibilities with PPI and show a more advantageous way to...
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Healthcare IT in Britain: NHS National Programme for IT (NPFIT)
Healthcare IT in Britain is today symbolised, rather starkly, by the troubled NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). This ambitious initiative was meant to catapult Britain into pole position in the global e-health readiness league. It sought to link more than 30,000 GPs to nearly 300 hospitals, provide comprehensive e-prescribing and develop a centralised...
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